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WWW.SUGARPRODUCER.COM 29 4665-6MonosemInc13s.indd 1 4665-6MonosemInc13s.indd 1 11/30/21 2:31 PM 11/30/21 2:31 PM 4081-3Noffsinger13s.indd 1 4081-3Noffsinger13s.indd 1 7/13/20 3:56 PM 7/13/20 3:56 PM served on the ASGA board of directors since 2016. American Crystal grower Neil Rockstad of Ada, Minnesota, was elected as ASGA vice president. Rockstad has served on the ASGA board of directors since 2015, and currently also serves as president of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association. A huge thank you goes to outgoing ASGA president Dan Younggren, who has led us over the last two years through tremendous challenges. He has termed out of office and now heads toward a much-deserved retirement. The industry also owes a great debt of gratitude to our retiring board members: Big Horn Basin's (Wyoming) Paul Wambeke; Michigan Sugar's Clay Crumbaugh, Adam Hereford and Tom Wadsworth; Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative's Pat Freese; Montana- Dakota's Don Steinbeisser Jr.; NEBCO's Aaron Worley; Nyssa-Nampa's (Oregon/Idaho) Norma Burbank (executive secretary); Red River Valley's Kelly Erickson, David Mueller and Rod Olson; and Southern Minnesota's Chris Long. We also say goodbye to ASGA vice president and general counsel Scott Herndon, who accepted a job in January to become the president of Field to Market. We will miss him dearly in his role at ASGA. But his move is beneficial for agriculture as producers interface with food producers and retailers on sustainability and climate issues. The linkages between these industries will only grow more important in the years ahead. The Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers Association has officially merged with the Idaho Beet Growers Association into the Snake River Sugarbeet Growers Association. As such, on Jan. 1, Norma Burbank, executive secretary of the Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers, has officially retired. On behalf of all growers across the nation, I want to express our deep appreciation for the tremendous service that Norma provided to Nyssa-Nampa growers for past 23 years. We applaud her for her dedicated commitment. Norma carried out the demands of the position with excellence and set a high bar for the industry. n