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Hill re-elected Iowa Farm Bureau vice presidentNorris and McKnight re-elected and Hora elected as district directors to board Iowa Craig Hill of Milo was re-elected vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation at the organization's 90th annual meeting in Des Moines. Delegates also re-elected two district directors to the board. They include Charlie Norris of Mason City and Jim McKnight of Afton. The delegates also elected Andrew Hora of Riverside to the board of directors, replacing Dan Johnson who retired. Hill was elected vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau in December 2001. He also serves as chairman of the state resolutions committee. Before serving as District 8 director, Hill was active in the Warren County Farm Bureau. In 2003, the American Farm Bureau Federation named Hill to a 23-member national committee, Making Agriculture Productive and Profitable. The committee developed long-term policy options for Farm Bureau to consider. Also, Hill currently serves on the ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean of Agriculture Advisory Committee and ISU Plant Sciences Institute Advisory Committee. Hill studied ag and management at the college level for three years. He and his wife, Patti, have two children. Their son, Adam, is involved in the family grain and livestock operation and daughter, Abbie, is a student at Iowa State University. Norris represents District 2, which consists of 11 counties in north central Iowa. He was elected to the position in 1996. He represents Iowa Farm Bureau on the U.S. Grains Council and is the IFBF liaison to the Iowa Corn Growers Association. Hora represents District 7, which consists of 11 counties in southeast Iowa. He and his wife, Mary, farm near Riverside and raise corn, soybeans and hogs. They have one daughter, Jessica. McKnight represents District 9, which consists of 12 counties in southwest Iowa. He was elected to the position in 2005. He serves on the ISU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory Production Animal Medicine Advisory Committee. The IFBF delegates also elected five members to represent Iowa at the 2009 American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in San Antonio, Texas. They are: Greg Rinehart, Boone; Leon Meiburg of Rock Rapids; Randy Hiemstra of Kingsley; Tony Allen of Diagonal; and Tim Kaldenberg of Albia. IFBF President Craig Lang of Brooklyn, Vice President Hill and District 4 Director Doug Gronau of Vail will also serve as delegates. In addition, Morey Hill of Madrid will serve as IFBF Internal Study Committee delegate to the 2009 AFBF Convention. Mary Heintz of Marengo (Iowa County) was elected to a three-year term on the IFBF internal study committee. The internal study committee serves as a liaison between the county Farm Bureau voting delegates and the state board of directors. 12/15/08 Date: 12/9/08 Advertisement
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