Murden to Lead National Sorghum Producers
National Sorghum Producers (NSP) President Greg Shelor of Minneola, Kan. will handover the Presidents gavel to Dale Murden of Monte Alto, Texas at the closing banquet of the 2007 Joint Conference of NSP and the Southern Seed Association (SSA). The conference kicked off this evening with an opening reception at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya in Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M.
Murden is the Vice President and General Manager of Rio Farms, Inc., an irrigated farming operation with crop production in Willacy and Hidalgo Counties in Deep South Texas. He serves as Vice President of the Texas Sorghum Association, Chairman of the Delta Lake Irrigation District and as a director for the Lower Rio Grande Valley Cotton and Grain Producers among other leadership roles. He has served as NSPs President-Elect for the past year.
On Saturday, the NSP Delegate Body elected Toby Bostwick of Melrose, N.M. to serve as President-Elect. Bostwick produces grain sorghum and wheat west of Clovis, N.M. He is Past President of both the New Mexico Grain Sorghum Producers Association and the Central Curry Soil & Water Conservation District.
Shelor will serve as Past President.
He grows dryland sorghum and wheat as well has having cow-calf pairs on grassland south of Dodge City, Kan. He is President of the Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association and serves on the Water Basin Advisory Board for the southwest district of Kansas. He is also an active member of the Kansas Farm Bill Coalition.
The immediate Past President is James Vorderstrasse of Hebron, Neb. Other leaders who will continue serving on the NSP Board include Dale Artho of Wildorado, Texas; Jeff Casten of Quenomo, Kan.; Jeff Filinger of Cuba, Kan.; Stan Fury of Broadview, N.M.; William Greving of Prairie View, Kan; Malcolm Haigwood of Newport, Ark.; Daniel Krienke of Perryton, Texas; Bill Kubecka of Palacios, Texas; Kenneth Rose of Keyes, Okla.; Gerald Simonsen of Ruskin, Neb.; Troy Skarke of Claude, Texas and Neil Strong of Moneta, Va.
NSP represents U.S. sorghum producers. Headquartered in Lubbock, Texas, in the heart of the U.S. Sorghum Belt that stretches from the Rockies to the Mississippi River and from South Texas to South Dakota, the organization works to ensure the profitability of sorghum production through market development, research, education and legislative representation. To learn more about NSP, visit
www.sorghumgrowers.com
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