New leadership team for council

CHAMPAIGN - Todd Doehring heads up the new leadership team of the Farm Financial Standards Council.

Doehring was elected at the Council’s annual meeting held recently in Champaign. He will serve a one-year term as president. Doehring is a director with Centrec Consulting Group, Savoy, IL. He had previously served the FFSC as vice president, secretary/treasurer and as chair of its Technical committee.

Other members of the leadership group are: Jan Bitter, Immediate Past president, vice president at Farm Credit East, Homer, NY; Keith Raynor, Vice President, principal with TRP CPAs, Dunn, NC; and, Brenda Duckworth, Secretary/Treasurer, farm staff accountant with AgriVision Farm Management, Hartley, TX. Directors elected to serve in staggered 2-year terms are: Bill Rutter, senior vice president and chief credit officer with MidAtlantic Farm Credit, Westminster, MD; Angela Chelsey, CPA and manager with Van Bruggen/Vande Vegte, PC, Rock Valley, IA; Jonathan Shepherd, University of Kentucky, Frankfurt, KY; Kathy Reinhardt, partner, Reinhardt Farms, Seaton, IL; Deena Brown, lead underwriter, CGB AgriFinancial Services, Louisville, KY; and, Lyle Anderson, managing director – Financial Analyst Manager, Rabo AgriFinance, Billings, MT.

The Council was formed in 1989 to help farmers and ranchers by promoting uniform financial reporting and analysis in the ag industry.