Granite Falls farmer named to Minnesota’s Farm Service Agency state committee

WILLMAR — 5 people had been not too long ago named to Minnesota’s Farm Service Company state committee, together with corn and soybean farmer Tim Velde of Granite Falls, based on a information launch from Minnesota Farmers Union.

Velde raises corn and soybeans and participates in a number of Farm Service Company packages, together with the Conservation Reserve Program. He’s vice chairman of the Yellow Drugs County Farmers Union and a former county president.

Velde is a rural electrical cooperative director and was a delegate to the one hundred and twentieth annual Nationwide Farmers Union Conference.

The U.S. Division of Agriculture Farm Service Company implements agriculture coverage, administers credit score and mortgage packages, and manages conservation, commodity, catastrophe and farm advertising packages.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appoints members to the FSA state committees, every of which has three to 5 members. Committee members are answerable for the oversight of farm packages and county committee operations, resolving program supply appeals from the agriculture neighborhood, sustaining cooperative relations with business stakeholders, protecting producers knowledgeable about packages and working in a way per USDA equal alternative and civil rights insurance policies.

Others named to the state committee are Eunice Biel, chairwoman, a dairy and crop farmer from Concord in Fillmore County; Hannah Bernhardt, a starting farmer and younger farmer advocate from Finlayson in Pine County, Kurt Blomgren, a grain and livestock farmer from Butterfield in Watonwan County; and Lisa Brunner, a citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, from Mahnomen in Mahnomen County.