FARM BUREAU ELECTS KRUSE TO NEW TERM

Charles Kruse has been elected to a second two-year term as president of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation.

Kruse, a Dexter farmer, was re-elected during the Farm Bureau's 80th annual meeting held at Osage Beach recently.

"I am gratified and extremely honored that the farmers and ranchers of the state of Missouri have expressed their confidence in me to continue to serve as Missouri Farm Bureau president," Kruse said. "The last years were two of the busiest and most challenging years every in my agriculture career and I look forward to working with the membership to meet the challenges farmers will face in the next two years."

Kruse, who owns and operates a row crop farm in Stoddard County, is past executive vice president and CEO of the North American Equipment Dealers Association; a past director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture; and a former research agronomist at the University of Missouri Delta Center in Portageville.

He is a retired brigadier general in the Missouri National Guard.

He was named in 1990 to the President's Council on Rural America and was appointed to the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education in 1992.

Kruse is the bureau's 13th president.

He is a graduate of the University of Missouri, with a master's degree in agronomy. Earlier this year, he received the university's Faculty Alumnus Award and the UM Ag Alumnus of the Year Award.