Advanced Director Certification Program

A completion ceremony was recently held for the first class of the Advanced Director Certification Program. The program is designed to help local cooperative board members broaden their business perspective, enhance leadership skills, increase knowledge of strategic issues impacting the GROWMARK System, and improve their understanding of the System’s strategic direction. Participants met for three sessions which included visits to the Chicago Board of Trade, Alpha, Ill. Distribution Center, the National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA) in McPherson, Kan., and GROWMARK Lubricants in Council Bluffs, Iowa.



Participants were: Rollo Burnett, Southern FS, Inc.; Mike DeSutter, RIVERLAND FS, Inc.; Rick Dickinson, Evergreen FS, Inc.; Scott Durbin, Assumption Cooperative Grain; John Eccles, North Wellington Co-operative; Robert Gratton, La Co-operative Agricole d’Embrun Limitee; Kevin Herink, New Century FS, Inc.; Michael Hoeft, Ag-Land FS, Inc.; Jim Maw, AGRIS Co-operative Ltd.; Glenn Milne, Madoc Co-operative Association; Dennis Neuhaus, AgriPride FS, Inc.; Mark Neumann, Evergreen FS, Inc.; Joseph Pickrell, Lincoln Land FS, Inc.; Ron Polage, Gold Star FS, Inc.; Don Schrader, Gateway FS, Inc.; and DonVos, New Alliance FS, Inc.