- Jesse Harness, Chair -
Mississippi. Mr. Harness is the
Director of Special Programs and Associate Extension Administrator of Alcorn State
University in Fayette, Mississippi. He is also a member of the National Commission
on Small Farms.
- Suzanne L. Bertrand - Arkansas. Ms. Bertrand is the Small Farms Special Projects Coordinator for
the Heifer Project International which is located in Little Rock;
- Calvin R. King, Sr. - Arkansas. Mr. King is the Founder and Executive Director of the
Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corporation which is located in Aubrey;
- Ranuir Singh - California. Mr. Singh is a fruit farmer in Marysville, California;
- Majorie Jarrett - Colorado. Ms. Jarrett is a rancher in Wray;
- Neil D. Hamilton - Iowa. Mr.Hamilton is the Director of Agricultural Law
Center and Professor of Law, Drake University Law School in Waukee;
- Karen S. Armstrong-Cummings -
Kentucky. Ms. Armstrong is the Director
of the Commodity Growers Cooperative Association located in Frankfurt, and member of the
National Commission on Small Farms;
- Harold Eugene Garrett -
Missouri. Mr. Garrett is a Professor and
the Director of Center for Agroforestry, University of Missouri in Columbia;
- Edgar J. Hicks - Nebraska. Mr. Hicks is the President of DHV Inc., a
Minority owned farmers commodities corporation located in Omaha;
- Archilus L. Hart - North
Carolina. Mr. Hart is the Assistant to
Commissioner of Agriculture, Small Farms Agricultural Policy located in Knightdale;
- Dayle Larue Aldridge -
Oklahoma. Ms. Aldridge is the Director
of Small Farms Outreach for the Oklahoma Landowners and Tenants Association located in
Taft;
- Don R. Crittenden - Oklahoma. Mr. Crittenden is a farmer/rancher and Cherokee
National Tribal Council Member located in Taklequah;
- Marion Long Bowlan -
Pennsylvania. Ms. Bowlan is a farmer and
the Executive Director of Pennsylvania Farm Link, Inc. which is located in Manheim, and
member of the National Commission on Small Farms;
- Thomas Joseph Trantham, Jr. -
South Carolina. Mr. Trantham is a dairy
farmer in Pelzer, and member of the National Commission on Small Farms;
- Golden J. Hardy - Texas. Mr. Hardy is a farmer and member of the
Jefferson County Farm Service Agency Committee in Beaumont;
- Jon W. Anderson - Vermont. Mr. Anderson is the Executive Secretary at the Vermont
Department of Agriculture, Food and Markets in Montpelier;
- Helen Gonzalez - Virgin
Islands. Ms. Gonzalez is a farmer, owner
and operator, and the Director of the Farmers Feed Cooperative which is located in St.
Croix;
- Luz Bazan Gutierrez -
Washington. Ms. Gutierrez is the
President of the Washington Association of Minority Entrepreneurs, Inc., which is located
in Yakima; and
- George L. Siemon - Wisconsin. Mr. Siemon is a farmer and CEO of the Organic Valley
Cooperative which is located in Viroqua.
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