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Tom Mund :: President

Tom Mund began his service to the cooperative when he was elected to the board in 1982. Tom, his wife, Shirley, and son, Scott, own and operate the family farm where they raise corn, beans and wheat. The Mund farm includes 700 acres under irrigation.

Mund is a past Chairman of the Sargent County Farm Bureau, and serves on the Public Finance Committee for North Dakota Farm Bureau.

He is a member of the North Dakota Corn Growers Assn. and has served on the organization’s board of directors; and he has served on the North Dakota Corn Utilization Board, the organization handling the distribution of corn check-off funds in the state.

Arden Fuher :: Vice-President

Arden Fuher began his service to the cooperative in 1986. Currently, he serves on the cooperative’s Labor Committee and Bylaws Committee and is the cooperative's vice-president.

Fuher was elected to serve as Dakota Valley’s representative on the Central Power Electric Cooperative board of directors, and presently serves as chairman of Central’s board. He is active in many community organizations and has served on Young township board for more than 28 years.

Arden and his wife, Sharon, live on a farm southwest of Edgeley. The Fuhers are parents of two grown children.

Ronald Kinzler :: Secretary

Ron Kinzler began his service as a director in 1986. During his tenure , he has served both as treasurer and is currently the cooperative’s secretary. Kinzler also serves on the cooperative's Policy Committee and Loan Committee. Kinzler was chosen by his fellow board members to represent Dakota Valley as a board member of the North Dakota Assn. of Rural Electric Cooperatives, and has served as a member of that organization’s Executive Committee.

Kinzler is active in local community organizations, including the United Methodist Church and the Farmers Union Local. He has served on the township board for more than 20 years. Ronald and his wife, Arva Dell, have two grown children – Mark and Julie. The Kinzlers live on a farm west of Kulm.

John Hauschild :: Treasurer

John Hauschild, Wahpeton, began his service to the cooperative in 1982. He currently serves as Dakota Valley’s treasurer. During his years as a director, Hauschild has served on various committees, including the rates, labor, loan, and building and grounds. He currently serves on the cooperative's Rate Committee and Buildings, Equipment and Grounds Committee.

Hauschild is a licensed master electrician and operates an electric contracting business in the Wahpeton area. . He is active in many community organizations, including the American Legion, VFW, Park Board and Fire Department. John and his wife, Bonnie, are the parents of three grown children - Heather, Dan, and Dusty.

John Hayen

John Hayen, Cogswell, has served on the board of directors since in 1994. He has served the cooperative in a number of capacities, including the labor committee and building and grounds committee. Currently he serves on the cooperative's Labor and Buildings, Equipment and Grounds Committee.

Hayen plays an active role in other organizations, including the Sargent Township board, and serving 16 years as a member of the Sargent-Central School board.

He is a member of the Cogswell Volunteer Rural Fire department and the Cogswell Community Club; and he has served on the Board of directors of Cogswell Farmers Elevator.

John and his wife, Barbara, have six grown children - Debbie, Vickie (deceased), Diane, Laura, Tina, and Sephenia., 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Kim Rasmussen

Kim Rasmussen was elected to the board of directors in 2004; he serves on the Rate Committee and Bylaws committee. He is active in many community organizations, including the Sargent County Crop and Livestock Improvement Assn.; previously he served as treasurer of the Taylor township board.

Rasmussen has served on the Sargent County Farm Bureau board of directors and has held many committee appointments at the state level. He is a member of the Farmers Union and the N. Dak. Stockmen’s Assn.

Kim and his wife, Sandy, live on the family farm west of Havana. The Rasmussens have three grown children – Lisa, Laura and David.

Richard Schlosser

Richard Schlosser was elected to the board of directors began in 1994. He has served on the policy, labor, and the loan committees of the cooperative. He currently serves on the cooperative's Policy and Labor Committees.

In 1997, Schlosser was elected vice-president of North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU). He has served as the farmer representative on the North Dakota Seed Arbitration Board and a board member of the North Dakota SEED, a group promoting wind development in North Dakota.

His other activities include LaMoure County Farmers Union Board of Directors, delegate to the national Farmers Union convention, and the North Dakota Farmers Union policy and action committee.

Schlosser and his wife, Mary, farm northeast of Edgeley. The couple has six children – Kristi, Jackie, Michael, Ryan, Cindy and Emily.

Gerald Sundquist

Gerald Sundquist was elected to the board of directors in 2004. Prior to his election as a director, he served on Dakota Valley’s Resolutions committee. Sundquist presently serves on Dakota Valley's Policy Comittee and Buildings, Equipment and Grounds Committee.

He currently serves a president of the Richland County Farmers Union. At the state level, he has served as a member of the North Dakota Farmers Union Board of Governors. Sundquist has been a full-time rural mail carrier in the Hankinson area for more than 20 years. He is a past-president of the Richland County Rural Carriers Assn.

Gerald and his wife, Bev, live on a farm west of Hankinson. The couple has three grown children – Krista, Jacque and Brian.

Connie Bitz

Connie Bitz was elected to the board of directors in 2008. Currently, she serves on the coopeerative's Loan Committee and Bylaw Committee.

Bitz has served on the supervisory board of the Lamoure Credit Union and as a youth leader for Farmers Union and the Cloverleaf 4H club. She is a member of the 76ers Homemakers Club, the LaMoure alumni Assn. and the Community Volunteer EMS of LaMoure. She also serves as Holy Rosary Catholic Church director of religious education, C.Y.O. advisor and is Deanery 8 diocesan representative.

Connie and her husband, James Bitz live on the family farm south of LaMoure where they raise livestock, small grains and row crops with some irrigation.

Connie and James Bitz have four children: Kimberly, Kelli, Kari and Kasey and four grandchildren.