William C. Bess, Jr., from Lincolnton, North Carolina, is owner of Bess Farms. Inc., a grain and hay production operation and has a 70-head cow-calf operation. He serves on the boards of the National Farm Credit Council Board, the Farm Credit System’s national trade organization, Farm Credit Council Services, and Carolina Farm Credit, ACA. He is also a member of the Cleveland County and Catawba Cattlemen’s Associations. Mr. Bess is a member of the Board Governance Committee.

Henry M. (Buddy) Frazee, of Alachua, Florida, is a retired managing partner of a large cow-calf beef cattle operation, and is President of West Putnam Lakes, Inc. and H&P Frazee Enterprises, Inc., timber and land development companies. He is also managing partner, trustee of Ashley Lake Plantation and West Putnam Enterprises, land development partnerships. In addition, along with his son, he manages a 2,000-acre game preserve and deer hound kennel. He currently serves on the board of Farm Credit of North Florida, ACA. Mr. Frazee is a member of the Board Governance Committee.

Don W. Freeman of Montgomery, Alabama, manages a 400-acre cow-calf operation and an 80 unit river rental business near Lowndesboro, Alabama. He is a member of the national Farm Credit Council Board, Lowndes County Farmers Federation Board, and the Lowndes County Cattlemen’s Association Board. He is also past president of the Alabama Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Mr. Freeman is a member of the Board Audit Committee.

Dale R. Hershey from Manheim, Pennsylvania is a partner in Hershey Brothers Dairy Farms, a dairy operation which milks 285 cows, raises 250 dairy replacements, and grows 650 acres of corn, alfalfa, soybeans, barley, rye and hay. He serves on the board of directors of MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA, and is a delegate on the Leadership Council for Land O’Lakes. He also is a member of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, Pennsylvania Dairy Stakeholders and the Pennsylvania Holstein Association, Lancaster County Blue Ribbon Commission for Agriculture and the Penn Township Ag Advisory Committee. Mr. Hershey serves on the Board Compensation Committee.

Robert L. Holden, Sr. is co-owner and operator of a dairy, a 900-acre row-crop farm, and a 200,000 broiler operation in Whigham, Georgia. He is a director of the Southwest Georgia Farm Credit, ACA, Georgia Milk Producers, Grady County Farm Bureau, American Dairy Association of Georgia, and First United Ethanol, LLC. Mr. Holden is a member of the Board Governance Committee.

Paul M. House, Vice Chairman of the Board, is from Nokesville, Virginia, where he grows corn, soybeans, wheat, hay and turf grass. He also operates a dairy. He serves as a director of the Farm Credit of the Virginias, ACA. Mr. House is a member of the Board Compensation Committee.

Thomas W. Kelly, Chairman of the Board, is a farmer from Tyrone, Pennsylvania. His farming operation includes raising dairy heifers and growing corn, soybeans and hay. Along with his son, he handles land management for Spring Lane Hunt Club. He currently is a member of the Penn State Agricultural Council and a director of Mid-Atlantic Master Farmer Association and is a former director of Holstein Association, USA.

Lyle Ray King of Ash, North Carolina, owns and operates a farm where he grows timber, corn, soybeans and wheat. He currently serves on the boards of Cape Fear Farm Credit, ACA, Atlantic Telephone Membership Cooperative, and Landbank Resource Management, a real estate company. Mr. King is a member of the Board Governance Committee.

M. Wayne Lambertson of Pokomoke City, Maryland, owns and operates with his son a 2,700-acre farm of corn, soybeans, and wheat, and a 300,000 capacity broiler operation. He is co-owner of a restaurant, Green Turtle, and partner in a development and construction company, J.W.L. Enterprise, LLC. He currently serves on the national Farm Credit Council Board, MidAtlantic Farm Credit, ACA board of directors and the board of the Delmarva Poultry Industry DPI, a trade organization. Mr. Lambertson serves as chairman of the Board Governance Committee.

James L. May is owner and operator of Mayhaven Farm in Waynesburg, Kentucky, where he owns 330 acres and leases another 700 acres. He is involved in the development and marketing of 500 heifers for replacement cows and embryo transfer. May’s operation also includes 150 acres of alfalfa hay, 500 acres of corn and soybeans, and 100 acres of wheat. He currently serves as a member of the Central Kentucky Ag Credit Board, Lincoln County Extension Council, Lincoln County Ag Development Board, and is a member of the Lincoln County Farm Bureau Board. Mr. May serves as a member of the Board Audit Committee.

Eugene W. Merritt, Jr., from Easley, South Carolina, is co-owner of an ornamental tree farm and is a landscape contractor. He also operates a 400-acre timber and grass farm. He serves on the boards of AgSouth Farm Credit, ACA; People Bancorp, a commercial bank holding company; Peoples National Bank, a commercial bank; and Jackson Companies, a recreational company. Mr. Merritt serves as chairman of the Board Compensation Committee and is a member of the AgFirst/FCBT Plan Fiduciary Committee.

James M. Norsworthy, III, from Jackson, Louisiana has been involved in production agriculture for 38 years. Mr. Norsworthy runs 100 Cedars Cattle Farm, a 175-head cow-calf operation near Jackson, La. He also has a commercial hay operation with 125 acres in Alicia Bermuda hay and 150 acres in Bahia Grass hay and manages a 375-acre pine and hardwood timber operation. He is a member of the board of directors of First South Farm Credit, ACA, and serves on the board of Feliciana Farm Bureau and was president of that organization from 1984 to 1996. He is a member of East Feliciana Cattlemen’s Association, American Angus Association and the Feliciana Forestry Association. Mr. Norsworthy served as mayor of the town of Jackson, La., from 1979 to 1996. Mr. Norsworthy serves on the Board Audit Committee.

Katherine A. Pace, from Orlando, Florida, is a certified public accountant. Prior to forming her company, Family Business Consulting, LLC, she was a tax partner with KPMG, LLP, an audit, tax and advisory service firm, from 1985-2005. While at KPMG her practice included a variety of cooperative and agribusiness clients as well as participation in trade associations such as the National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives. Ms. Pace obtained her B.S. degree in accounting from Furman University. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants and current and past member and director of numerous trade and charitable organizations. In addition to the AgFirst Bank she serves as a director on an advisory board for a private for profit organization involved in agriculture. Ms. Pace is a member of the Board Audit Committee and is a board designated financial expert.

J. Dan Raines, Jr. is a beef producer from Ashburn, Georgia. His operations include commercial beef cattle, registered Angus cattle and timber. He serves as a director on the boards of AgGeorgia Farm Credit, ACA and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac). Mr. Raines serves as a member of the Board Compensation Committee.

Walter L. Schmidlen, Jr., from Elkins, West Virginia, is a past dairy farmer and now continues his cow-calf operation along with growing hay and corn on a 700 acre farm with lease/rented land. He is owner/operator of a farm equipment business. He presently serves on the board of the Farm Credit of the Virginias, ACA, and was a former director of Southern States Cooperative and Sire Power. Mr. Schmidlen serves as a member of the Board Governance Committee.

Robert G. Sexton is from Vero Beach, Florida. He is President of Oslo Citrus Growers Association and co-owner of Orchid Island Juice Company. He serves as a director of Farm Credit of South Florida, ACA; Florida Citrus Packers; Indian River Citrus League; Highland Exchange Service Co-op, a packinghouse supply cooperative; McArthur Management Company, a management company for a large dairy, cattle and citrus agribusiness; Sexton Grove Holdings, a family citrus company; Sexton Properties, Oslo Packing Company, Patio Restaurant and Sexton, Inc., family commercial real estate companies; and Dancing Pigs, LLC, which owns Red, Hot and Blue BBQ restaurants. In addition, he is a member of the Indian River Farm Bureau. He obtained both his B.S. degree in business administration and his MBA finance from the University of Florida. Mr. Sexton serves as chairman of the Board Audit Committee and is a board designated financial expert.

Kenneth A. Spearman, from Winter Haven, Florida, is a retired Director of Internal Audit for Florida’s Natural Growers, Inc. who served 28 years with the citrus industry. He was Controller of Citrus Central, Inc. in Orlando, Florida from 1980-1991, was cofounder of a public accounting firm in Chicago, Illinois and was employed with Arthur Andersen & Co. He obtained his Masters Degree in Business Administration from Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, and his B. S. degree in accounting from Indiana University. He served as chairman of the board of trustees for the Lake Wales Medical Center. He is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, and the National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives, where he was a past National President. Mr. Spearman serves as a member of the Board Compensation Committee.

Robert H. Spiers, Jr., is a full-time farmer, with a tobacco, corn, wheat, soybean and cotton operation on 1,100 acres in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He currently serves on the boards of Colonial Farm Credit, ACA, Tobacco Associates, Inc. and Dinwiddie County Farm Bureau. He is also director and treasurer of the Old Hickory Hunt Club and director on the Virginia Flue-cured Tobacco Board. He has been active on a number of Virginia Farm Bureau advisory committees. Mr. Spiers serves as a member of the Board Compensation Committee.

William H. Voss, is from McComb, Mississippi. He has commercial cattle and timber operations in Southwest Mississippi and is involved in land and commercial property management. His career includes production agriculture, agribusiness and real estate. He currently serves on the Board of directors of First South Farm Credit, ACA. He is a former agricultural commodities and securities broker and has served as Chairman of the Mississippi Real Estate Commission and Chairman of the Pike County Farm Service Committee. Mr. Voss serves as a member of the Board Compensation Committee.