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Lang re-elected Iowa Farm Bureau presidentIowa Craig Lang of Brooklyn was re-elected president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation at the organization's 91st annual meeting in Des Moines. County delegates also re-elected two district directors to the board. They include Carlton Kjos of Decorah and Phil Sundblad of Albert City. The delegates also elected Morey Hill of Madrid to the board of directors. Lang's service on the IFBF board of directors began in 1992, when he was elected as a district director. He then served as the organization's vice president from 1996 to 2001 before being elected president. A native of Brooklyn, Lang became active in the Poweshiek County Farm Bureau in 1982 and held the offices of vice president, president and voting delegate. He has also served on the IFBF Political Action Committee and the IFBF and AFBF dairy advisory committees. He currently serves on the American Farm Bureau Federation board of directors, representing the Midwest Region. Lang also serves as director on the Farm Bureau Bank Board in San Antonio, Texas, is a lead director on the Iowa Telecom board and is chairman of the board of FBL Financial Group, Inc. Lang, a graduate of Iowa State University, runs a dairy farm in partnership with his father and brother. He and his wife, Mary, have four children including one son who is now the sixth generation to join their family farm. Kjos represents District 1, which consists of 11 counties in northeast Iowa. He was first elected to the position in 2006. Sundblad represents District 3, which consists of 12 counties in northwest Iowa. He was first elected to the position in 2000. He also serves as the IFBF board representative on the Iowa AgState Group Report. Hill represents District 5, which consists of 12 counties in central Iowa. Hill and his wife, Rhonda, operate a corn and soybean farm, along with a small sheep operation near Madrid. They have two adult children. The IFBF delegates also elected five members to represent Iowa at the 2010 American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Seattle, Washington. They are Doug Adams of Humboldt, Scott Becker of Manson, James Hassebrock of Roland, Nick Podhajsky of Traer, and David Rydberg of Essex. Russ Davis of Nemaha (Sac 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.
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