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Texas Farm Bureau
Leadership and Board of Directors
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Kenneth Dierschke
President
Kenneth Dierschke of San Angelo became president of Texas Farm Bureau in December
2002. He was elected to the TFB Board in December 1996, and became vice president
in 2000. In January 2003, he was elected to the American Farm Bureau Federation
Board of Directors. Dierschke raises cotton, milo and wheat. He has served on the
Tom Green County FB board since 1975, with one term as president and on TFB's Blue
Ribbon Goals, Resolutions, and Cotton Advisory committees.
Read more about President Dierschke.
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Dewey Hukill
Vice President
State Director, District 2
Dewey Hukill was elected to the TFB Board in December 2006. Hukill is a cotton,
corn and wheat farmer from Olton. He has served as president and vice president
of the Lamb County FB and also served on various TFB commodity advisory
committees. Hukill established Agri-Gold, Inc. in 1985 with partner Royce
McFadden. He was named "2006 Man of the Year" by the Olton Chamber of Commerce.
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Raymond Meyer
Secretary-Treasurer
State Director, District 10
Raymond Meyer of Pleasanton was elected to the TFB Board in December 2006. Meyer
and his wife own a cow/calf operation and produce hay for their operation. He
served as president of the Atascosa County Farm Bureau for 15 years. He served
on all county committees, including twice on the State Resolutions Committee. He
organized the Ag in the Classroom Day in Atascosa County.
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Billy Bob Brown
State Director, District 1
Billy Bob Brown of Panhandle was elected to the TFB Board in December 2005. Brown
is a fourth generation farmer raising irrigated and dryland wheat, cotton and seed
milo. From 1982 to present, he has been a Carson CFB board member, where he was
serving his fourth term as president when elected to the TFB Board. Brown has served
as a member of the TFB Wheat Advisory and Project 2000 committees.
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Larry Pratt
State Director, District 3
Larry Pratt of Eliasville was elected to the TFB Board in December 2005. Pratt
raises cattle, wheat, oats and coastal hay on his Young County farm. He also
does custom farming and provides area ranchers with a hay and feed store. Pratt
has served as a Young CFB board member since 1972 and as president of the board
since 1991. He was honored with the Outstanding Farmer and Rancher Award in
1976.
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Charles Ray Huddleston
State Director, District 4
Charles Ray Huddleston was elected to the TFB Board in December 2006.
Huddleston, a fourth generation farmer, is a wheat, corn and sorghum producer
from Celina. He has served as president and secretary of the Collin CFB.
Huddleston was involved in AgLead II, the State Resolutions Committee and the
TFB Natural Resources Advisory Committee. He has received the DuPont Leadership
Award and Conservation Farmer of the Year, among others.
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Dan Shelton
State Director, District 5
Dan E. Shelton of DeKalb was elected to the TFB Board in December 2007.
Shelton's principal crops are Tifton 44 Bermuda hay and forage. He also raises
registered Angus and Commercial replacement females and bulls. Shelton works
alongside his sons and, together, they have helped maintain the farm on the
original home place portion of their current operations, spanning more than 100
years. Shelton has served as president and vice president of the Bowie CFB and
continues to serve on the county board.
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David Stubblefield
State Director, District 6
David Stubblefield of Colorado City was elected to the TFB Board in December
2008. Stubblefield is a fourth generation cattle, cotton, wheat and sorghum
producer. He served as Mitchell CFB president for 20 years, as well as holding
leadership posts with Lone Star Ag Credit, the groundwater conservation board
and the producers' cooperative gin.
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Dave Edmiston
State Director, District 7
Dave Edmiston
was elected to the TFB Board in December 2009. He is a
third generation rancher with a cow/calf, wildlife and hay operation
near Brady. Edmiston served as president and vice president of McCulloch CFB. He
serves as a board director for the Central Texas Taxpayers Association, past
president of the McCulloch County Livestock Committee and a life member of the
San Antonio Livestock Committee.
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Richard Cortese
State Director, District 8
Richard Cortese was elected to the TFB Board in December 2006. Cortese is a
grain and livestock producer from Little River Academy.
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Jay V. Snook Jr.
State Director, District 9
Jay Snook of Livingston was elected to the TFB Board in December 2007. Snook and
his wife invest their efforts in full time ranching, timber production,
operating a cow-calf operation and rental property management. Snook has held
various offices at the Polk CFB including president, vice president, secretary,
treasurer and chairman of various committees. He was instrumental in organizing
the first Ag Day in Polk County in 2004.
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Thomas L. Paben
State Director, District 11
Thomas L. Paben of Waller was elected to the TFB Board in December 2005. Paben,
a Waller CFB farmer since 1972, is a corn, cow-calf and hay producer. He has
held several officer positions with Waller CFB and also served on the YF&R,
Peanut Advisory, AFBF Peanut, and Resolutions committees. Paben was awarded
TFB's Outstanding Young Farmer and Rancher award in 1978.
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Russell Boening
State Director, District 12
Boening grows feed grains, cotton, watermelons and wheat, as well as operating a
450-cow dairy with his brother and father. He is a former winner of the TFB
Outstanding YF&R Award and has held nearly every office on the Wilson CFB board.
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Dale Murden
State Director, District 13
Dale Murden
was elected to the TFB Board in December 2009. He and his family grow sugarcane,
citrus, grains, vegetables and soybeans near his hometown of Monte Alto. Murden
serves on the Hidalgo CFB, as well as chairman of the Rio Grande Valley Sugar
Mill,
Delta Lake Irrigation District
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Texas
Citrus Producers Board and the Hidalgo County AgriLife Program Committee. He
also served as past chairman of the National Sorghum Producers and a trade
advisory team member to the U.S. Grain Council. |