The American Soybean Association (ASA) Board of Directors elected the leaders who will guide the organization through the changing policy landscape on Capitol Hill in the coming year during its annual meeting held virtually this week. 

Kevin Scott (South Dakota) will serve as 2021 ASA president. Scott previously served as vice president, secretary and an at-large member of the ASA Governing Committee. Immediate past president Bill Gordon (Minnesota) moves to the role of ASA chairman. Former chairman Davie Stephens (Kentucky) rotates off the nine-member governing committee but remains on the ASA board.   

The ASA board also elected Brad Doyle (Arkansas) to serve as vice president, a position that places him in line to serve as the association’s president in 2022. Doyle previously served as ASA secretary and at-large member of the ASA Governing Committee.  

In addition, the board voted to elect Daryl Cates (Illinois) as secretary; Stan Born (Illinois) as treasurer; and Josh Gackle (North Dakota); Caleb Ragland (Kentucky), George Goblish (Minnesota) and Dennis Fujan (Nebraska) as at-large members of the governing committee. 

Ragland is an eighth-generation farmer who raises soybeans, corn, wheat and pigs on his family farm. He also serves on the Kentucky Soybean Association Board, the Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board, and as president of the Kentucky Livestock Coalition Board. 

The American Soybean Association represents U.S. soybean farmers on domestic and international policy issues important to the soybean industry. ASA has 26 affiliated state associations representing 30 soybean-producing states and more than 300,000 soybean farmers. 

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