Ag Advisory Committees
Ag Advisory Committees were authorized in the fall of 1997 by the Kansas Farm Bureau Board of Directors in order to “provide Farm Bureau members increased participation, a more efficient method of surfacing concerns, interests and needs regarding specific commodities and to enhance Kansas Farm Bureaus’ ability to respond to issues and programming needs critical to the profitability and risk management of specific agricultural commodity enterprises."
The Farm Bureau members below currently serve on these important committees.
Get Involved
Advisory committee members are appointed by the KFB president with recommendations from the district board directors. Members are appointed to serve one year terms (Oct. 1 to Sept. 30), and can serve up to three terms in one position.
If you are interested in serving on an advisory committee, contact your district board director.
Note: Our Dairy, Sheep & Goat, and Swine Committees will now be represented with Focus Groups. KFB will host an annual meeting for each of these groups and it will be open to any KFB member to attend. This will provide producers the chance to create grassroots policies and to bring issues in front of the Resolutions Committee. If you would like to stay involved with these groups please click here for more information.
Beef
District 1 - Russell Rezac
District 2 - Jason Spellman
District 3 - Levi Clubine
District 4 - Trey Hinkson
District 5 -Eddie Sandberg
District 6 - Jason Nelson
District 7 - Katie Carothers
District 8 - Jim Harden
District 9 - Sophie Davies
District 10 - Tobin Mettling
Board Liaison - Dan Schmidt
ENR
District 1 - Bryan Zesiger
District 2 - Clay Rolf
District 3 -Craig Carnahan
District 4 - Jake Bevan
District 5 - Tom Tibbets
District 6 -Jason Coover
District 7 -Lance Ohnmacht
District 8 - Shane Schlegel
District 9 - Ben McClure
District 10 -Dan Sowers
Board Liaison - Steven McCloud
Feed Grains & Oilseeds
District 1 -Hayden Cross
District 2 -Michael Spade
District 3 -Greg Mowdy
District 4 - Anthony Metz
District 5 - Darrin Jacobson
District 6 - Adam Ifland
District 7 -Kendall Hodgson
District 8 - Gage Skelton
District 9 - Kyle Deaver
District 10 -Steve Seegmiller
Board Liaison - Tim Tyson
Hay & Forage
District 1 -Wade Meeks
District 2 -Thomas Phillips
District 3 - Dee Bedenbender
District 4 -Jeff Varner
District 5 - Michael Welch
District 6 - Heath Ehrlich
District 7 - Kyle Schartz
District 8 - Bryce Maneth
District 9 - Koreen Woods
District 10 - Clayton Janicke
Board Liaison - Jim Schmidt
Rural Economies
District 1 - Bryce Barnett
District 2 - Ashley Beying
District 3 - Mike O'Malley
District 4 - Randy Collett
District 5 - Stacey Forshee
District 6 - Sarah LaRosh
District 7 - Carolyn Dunn
District 8 - Jan Rider
District 9 - Marieta Hauser
District 10 - Gennifer House
Board Liaison - Dan Schmidt
Water
District 1 - Dustin Mengarelli
District 2 - John Lichtenauer
District 3 - Nathan Mentzer
District 4 - Bill Carp
District 5 - Chris Visser
District 6 - Kathleen Schultze
District 7 - Justin Vosburg
District 8 - Richard Wenstrom
District 9 - Jarvis Garetson
District 10 - Ryan Janitell
Board Liaison - Joe Jury
Wheat
District 1 - Ryan Johnson
District 2 - Roy Rickel
District 3 - Gerald Gowing
District 4 - Andy Brand
District 5 - Jim Schmidt
District 6 - Gerald Riedel
District 7 - Cameron Peirce
District 8 - Tyler Rider
District 9 - Steven Marcy
District 10 - Clay Schemm
Board Liaison - George Pretz