Farm Financial Standards Council elects new leadership

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Members of the Farm Financial Standards Council elected its 2024-2025 leadership team and installed two new members to its board of directors at its annual conference July 24-26 in Louisville. All will serve through June 30, 2025.

Elected to the role of president is Jonathan Shepherd, director of the Income Tax Seminar Program in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky in Frankfort. Shepherd previously served as president-elect and secretary/treasurer of the organization.

Immediately preceding Shepherd and now immediate past-president is Deena Brown, lead underwriter with CGB AgriFinancial in Louisville.

The new president-elect is Russell Morgan, principal with Morgan Agriculture Consulting Services in Portland, Tennessee. He had been secretary/treasurer with the council.

Replacing Morgan as secretary/treasurer is Jeffrey Bushey, managing principal at Nietzke & Faupel in Pigeon, Michigan.

Elected to three-year positions as directors were Ari Chavez, controller at AgriVision Farm Management in Hartley, Texas; and Todd Doehring, director at Centrex Consulting in Savoy, Illinois.

The council is a member and volunteer organization established in1989 following the farm crisis of the 1980s. Its mission is to provide uniform accounting and financial reporting standards for agricultural producers.

It produces two documents, “Financial Guidelines for Agriculture” and “Management Accounting Guidelines for Agriculture.” More information is available at www.ffsc.org.