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Graduates of the
Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program
WELCOME!
Morton and Harris elected to
Illinois
Agricultural Leadership Alumni Board
Macomb, IL –Tim Harris, Princeton, IL
and Chet Boruff, Moline, IL were elected to serve on the Illinois
Agricultural Leadership Alumni Board.
Harris was elected to serve as the IALA President and Boruff
was elected at Vice President.
They will each serve a one-year term.
The Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation
(IALF) is a statewide not-for-profit organization established to
support a leadership development program for men and women in the
agricultural industry.
Its mission is to develop knowledgeable and effective spokesperson
to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.
Tim Harris, IALP ’00, currently the President
of Key Builders Construction, Inc. located in
Princeton,
Illinois.
He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the
company. He is also a
partner with his family’s 1000-acre grain farming operation. Tim
received his AAS from
Illinois
Valley
Community College in Agribusiness.
He is an Illinois Certified Crop Advisor, Illinois Real
Estate Broker, and Accredited Farm Manager with the American Society
of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
He serves as Trustee for Greenfield Retirement Home in
Princeton, serves on the board of directors for the
Bureau County Health and Wellness Clinic, and a member of the
Evangelical
Covenant
Church
where he served as church chair. Tim and his wife Judy and have a
daughter, Jennifer, and a son, Aaron.
Chester
S. (Chet) Boruff serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the
Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA), starting
in this position on November 1, 2004.
Chet was raised on a diversified family farm in Rock Island, County, Illinois, and received an agricultural degree
from Iowa State University.
He met and married his wife, Joy, while they were students at
ISU. They have two
children, Scott and Amy.
During his career, Chet has worked in agricultural finance, sales,
marketing, and for seven years served as the Deputy Director of the
Illinois Department of Agriculture.
Throughout his career, he has operated a farming operation in
his home area. He is a 1984 graduate of the Illinois Agricultural
Leadership Program.
Officers of the IALA Board are: Tim Harris,
President; Chet Boruff, Vice President; Jackie Kraft and Kim Morton,
Northeast Directors; Tim Harris and Chet Boruff, Northwest
Directors; Randy Grove and Randy Sims, Southwest Directors; Bruce
Stikkers and Mary Christine Ludwig, Southeast Directors; and Matt
Wiebers, Out-of-State Director.
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