Conner Names United States Potato Board Members
DENVER—(January 17, 2008) Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner recently appointed 35 producer members and one public member to serve on the United States Potato Board (USPB) for three-year terms beginning March 1, 2008 and ending February 28, 2011. In addition, another member has been appointed to fill a vacancy for a term of office beginning immediately and ending on February 28, 2009.
Reappointed to the board as grower members are: Noland Critchfield of
Oakley, ID; Randy L. Hardy, Oakley, ID; Cheryl Ann Koompin,
American Falls, ID; Bryan Robert Folson, Grand Forks, ND; Craig
Steinbeisser, Zahl, ND; Lon E. Baley, Malin, OR; Keith Barrett,
Shallowater, TX; Terry Bailie, Mesa, WA; Stephen Connors, Warden,
WA; Andrew Stephen Diercks, Coloma, WI; Brad Faldet, Waupaca, WI
and Donald Brown, Pine Bluffs, WY.
Don Zimmerman of Fort Collins, CO, has been reappointed to the board as the public member.
Newly appointed producer members are: Ernest D. Ford of Center, CO; Gary B. Lands, St. Augustine, FL; Jeff Gibson, Burley, ID; Bevan Jeppesen, Rexburg, ID; Alan Glen Parks, Blackfoot, ID; William Ritchey Toevs, Aberdeen, ID; Keith Labrie, St. Agatha, ME; Alan Moir, Woodland, ME; Tom Wingard, Elk River, MN; Joe Thompson, Hemmingford, NE; Tom Scott Campbell, Grafton, ND; Eric Halverson, Grand Forks, ND; Ben Tucker, St. Thomas, ND; Chris Warren Slagell, Hydro, OK; Troy Betz, Hermiston, OR; Molly Ryan Connors, Richland, WA; Rob Davis, Connell, WA; Greg Ebe, Custer, WA; Chris Olsen, Othello, WA; Randy Mullen and Reid Reimann, Pasco, WA; Ron Mach, Antigo, WI; and Richard Okray, Plover, WI.
Tom Church of Wilder, ID, has been appointed to fill a vacancy for the term of office beginning immediately and ending on Feb. 28, 2009.
Authorized under the 1971 Potato Research and Promotion Act, the USPB is composed of growers, importers and a public member appointed by the Secretary. Grower members are nominated at state and local grower meetings and by mail ballot. Each state is entitled to at least one grower member, and additional members are allotted for each five million hundredweight of potato production, or major fraction thereof, produced within each State, as reported in the latest Crop Production Annual Summary Report issued by the Crop Reporting Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Importer members are nominated by importers, and the number of members is related to the volume of imports up to a maximum of five importer members.
The USBP administers an industry funded research and promotion program to increase US exports and domestic potato consumption. USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) oversees the operations of the Board.
More information about the AMS research and promotion programs is at
http://www.ams.usda.gov/fv/rpb.html.
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David Fairbourn is Manager, Industry Communications & Policy, at the United States Potato Board in Denver. The mission of the USPB is to increase demand for potatoes and potato products through an integrated promotion program, thereby providing US producers with expanding markets for their production. David can be contacted at 303-369-7783 or david.fairbourn@uspotatoes.com. For complete information about the programs, ROI results, resources and tools available to all members of the industry through the USPB, please visit www.uspotatoes.com. The United States Potato Board -- Maximizing Return on Grower Investment.
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