State Commodity Board Election Results Announced

For Immediate Release – July 20, 2021

SPRINGFIELD IL– The Illinois Department of Agriculture has announced the winners of three commodity board elections. Producers voted July 7 to select members of the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, the Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board and the Illinois Sheep and Wool Marketing Board. Winners will serve three-year terms.

Winner names and the districts they will represent are as follows:

LLINOIS CORN MARKETING BOARD

District Counties in District Candidate and Hometown

District 2 Carroll, JoDaviess, Ogle, Stephenson, Jon Rosenstiel, Pearl City
Winnebago

District 5 Grundy, Kankakee, LaSalle, Art Bunting, Dwight
Livingston

District 8 Cass, Fulton, Logan, Mason, Menard, Ross E. Pauli, Edwards
Peoria, Tazewell

District 11 Christian, Effingham, Fayette, Wayne Rosenthal, Morrisonville
Montgomery, Shelby

District 14 Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Dale Handrich, Waterloo
St. Clair, Washington

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ILLINOIS SOYBEAN PROGRAM OPERATING BOARD

District Counties in District Candidate and Hometown

District 2 Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kankakee, Steve Pitstick, Maple Park
Lake, McHenry, Will

District 10 Christian, DeWitt, Macon, Moultrie, Elliott Uphoff, Shelbyville
Shelby

District 11 Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Matthew J Murray, Paxton
Piatt

District 14 Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, L. Brad Daughtery, West Union
Effingham, Jasper

District 16 Clay, Edwards, Lawrence, Richland, Brain H. Atteberry, Carmi
Wabash, Wayne, White

District 17 Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Randolph, Nick Harre, Nashville
Washington

SHEEP AND WOOL MARKETING BOARD

District Counties in District Candidate and Hometown

District 2 Champaign, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, To be appointed
Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois,
Kankakee, Kendall, Livingston, Piatt
Vermilion, Will

District 5 Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Greene, To be appointed
Jersey, Macoupin, Morgan, Pike,
Schuyler, Scott