South Dakota Ag Alliance Announces Advisory Committee
(Pierre, SD) Today, the South Dakota Ag Alliance announced its Advisory Committee. Members include Kim Vanneman, Lynn Jensen, Ryan Olson, Ron Alverson, Sal Roseland, and Lorin Pankratz.
“We are proud to announce a Who’s Who list of South Dakota agriculture leaders who have agreed to serve on our advisory committee,” said Jason Glodt, founding member of the SD Ag Alliance. “Each committee member has a wealth of agriculture experience and a proven record of getting results for South Dakota.”
Kim Vanneman and her husband Clint own and operate a diversified farming and ranching operation in south central South Dakota. Vanneman earned an ag business degree from South Dakota State University and served as South Dakota Secretary of Agriculture. She also served 6 years in the South Dakota House of Representatives. She served on the Board of Farm Credit Services of America for 12 years and served on four other Farm Credit System boards.
Lynn Jensen has been farming in the Lake Preston area for over 43 years. He is a past President of the South Dakota Corn Growers Association, former National Corn Growers President, and C0-CEO. Jensen played an instrumental role in drafting the language to get the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) passed. Jensen was also appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the State Director of Rural Development USDA. In addition, Jensen currently serves on the South Dakota Department of Transportation Commission.
Ron Alverson is from Wentworth and has been farming for 45 years. He is a founding member and past president of the South Dakota Corn Grower’s Association, and past board member of the National Corn Grower’s Association. In addition, Alverson is a founder and past Chairman of Lake Area Corn Processors LLC (Dakota Ethanol). Alverson was also a past president of the American Coalition for Ethanol and still currently serving on the board of directors. Ron has a BS degree in Agronomy/Soil Science from SDSU.
Ryan P. Olson is a lifelong farmer from Onida, SD. Ryan served in the SD House of Representatives from District 24 for 8 years and was the chairman of the House Taxation Committee. He currently serves as a board member on the SD Oilseeds Council and the National Sunflower Association. Ryan is married with 4 children.
Lorin Pankratz will serve as chair of the advisory committee. He grew up on his family farm near Hetland and graduated from SDSU. Lorin served in the U.S. Army as a Military Intelligence Agent and worked as a Special Agent for the SD Division of Criminal Investigation. He has over forty years of experience with government affairs in South Dakota, representing some of the largest organizations in the state- including the SD Soybean Association, SD Pork Producers, SD Dairy Association and more.
Sal Roseland is a 5th generation farmer and rancher in Faulk and Hyde counties. He is also the managing partner of R&R Pheasant Hunting. Roseland serves on the Governor’s Second Century Habitat Fund and serves on the board for the South Dakota Cattlemen’s Association. He is also a graduate of the South Dakota Ag and Rural Leadership program.
“We look forward to working together to establish landowner guardrails for carbon capture pipelines that include land survey reform, liability protection, minimum depth of pipelines, additional recurring compensation for landowners and improved legal and regulatory certainty for businesses,” said Rob Skjonsberg, founding member of the SD Ag Alliance.
South Dakota Ag Alliance is a non-profit organization designed to mediate and advocate for reasonable solutions to difficult ag and rural development issues, such as the controversial CO2 pipeline proposal.
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Impressive group.
Let us see what the libbies over at the Out-of-State Name-Caller blog have to say about this! They’re not going to like it. They’re not going to like it at all.
How many of those commenters of there on the “Out-of-State Name-Caller blog” actually living in South Dakota? 3 including the Mr. Zitterich and Mowery?
I just want to say, I’m very proud of Jason Glodt and the work he is doing for SD. He recognizes a solvable problem, he develops a vision for a solution, and executes his plans with the help of South Dakotans whom he put in the time to establish a relationship with. We need more guys like Jason who put in the work to make change instead of putting in just enough work to justify throwing their name in the hat.
Snort. Chuckle. Is this sarcasm?
The guy is nothing but a political mercenary.
But you go ahead and characterize such things as taking Henry Nicholas’ money to cram Marsy’s Law into our state constitution, or in this case taking Summit Carbon Solutions money as “the work he is doing for SD”.
LOL.
Better late than never. Where were these ideas two years ago?
We were founded as a capitalist country. we always have been. As such, the folks with the most capital get to dictate the course of our economy. The CO2 pipeline is a good example of how the system works. Over a billion dollars are at stake over the lifetime of this somewhat dubious project.