Montana Farm Bureau Elects Officers
Cyndi Johnson, a wheat farmer from Conrad, has been elected as president of the Montana Farm Bureau Federation during the organization’s 102nd annual convention Nov. 8-11 in Billings. Johnson will serve as the organization’s first female president since its inception in 1919.
Gary Heibertshausen, an Alzada sheep rancher, was elected vice president.
Darcia Patten, a cattle rancher from Broadus, was elected as MFBF District 5 director. Re-elected to the MFBF board of directors were Craig Blevins, District 1, a purebred Angus breeder from Ronan; Kris Descheemaeker, District 3, a cattle rancher from Lewistown; Joy DePuydt, District 7, a small grains farmer and cattle rancher from Saco, and Scott Stoner, District 9, who raises horses in Montana City.
Carla Lawrence from Boyd was re-elected as the MFBF Women’s Leadership Chair with J.M Peck from Melrose re-elected as the MFBF Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee Chair.
