Three agribusiness leaders were elected to the board of the Farm Foundation – Gregg Hillyer, editor of Progressive Farmer magazine; Craig Yunker of CY Farms and John Miller, vice president of agricultural products for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad. Re-elected to the board were James Borel, executive vice president of DuPont and Richard Crowder, professor of agricultural economics at Virginia Tech. Created in 1933, the foundation encourages sound public policy by providing objective information on agriculture, food systems and rural regions.
John Campbell, an agribusiness executive active in renewable fuels and a former deputy assistant agriculture secretary, is now a managing director for Ocean Park Advisors, a corporate finance advisory firm with headquarters in Los Angeles. Campbell is based in Omaha, Neb, where he worked for two decades as an executive at AG Processing Inc.