Randy Veach and Rich Hillman will continue as president and vice president, respectively, of Arkansas Farm Bureau following their re-election Friday.
Delegates also re-elected Joe Christian of Jonesboro as secretary/treasurer and six other board members during the final day of the organization’s 84th annual convention at the Hot Springs Convention Center.
The board members, who will serve two-year terms, are:
- Rusty Smith of Des Arc
- Jeremy Miller of Huntsville
- Dan Wright of Waldron
- Tom Jones of Pottsville
- Terry Dabbs of Stuttgart
- Caleb Plyler of Hope
Veach begins his 11th term as president. He is Arkansas Farm Bureau’s 10th president since its creation in 1935. The third-generation farmer lives in the community of Lost Cane near Manila.
Hillman is from Carlisle and will begin his 11th term as vice president. He is a sixth-generation farmer. His main crops are rice, soybeans and wheat.
Christian is a row-crop farmer who grows rice and soybeans.