HARRISBURG, PA (February 8, 2024) – At their February meeting, the Pennsylvania Soybean Board welcomed three new members to the Board. Marin MacNamara, Kaycee Stephens, and Adam Schettler have joined the Board of farmer/leaders who administer the soybean checkoff on behalf of Pennsylvania soybean growers.
“Our board of directors come from all areas of Pennsylvania, with many different backgrounds, but the common denominator that brings us together is we are all farmers who grow soybeans,” says John Harrell, chair of the Pennsylvania Soybean Board. “As a volunteer, farmer-led board, we work together to bring value to Pennsylvania soybean growers.”
MacNamara holds a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Business from the University of Guelphin Ontario, Canada and a Masters degree in Agricultural Management from Lincoln University in New Zealand. She’s worked in Canada, the Western United States and New Zealand, primarily in crop research and agronomy, and is currently employed in the agricultural finance field. She’s also the Women’s Leadership Chair for the Fayette County Farm Bureau. She and her husband operate a first-generation farm with 2,000 acres of soybeans, corn, winter wheat and hay in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. They also have a flock of sheep, a small herd of beef cows, and a custom spraying business.
Stephens graduated from Penn State with a B.S. degree in Agricultural Sciences and a minor in Agronomy. She is a Territory Manger for Corteva Agrisciences within Pennsylvania and Western Maryland. She and her husband operate a small grain operation in Centre Countywhere they rotate corn, soybeans, and wheat.
Schettler graduated from Penn State with a B.S. degree in Agricultural Systems Management and a minor in Agronomy. He is a Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) at Centerra Co-Op, a full-service farmer-owned cooperative in Volant, Pa. Schettler and his wife farm in Connoquenessing, Butler County where they grow corn, soybeans, wheat, and pumpkins.
The Pennsylvania Soybean Board is a farmer-controlled Board responsible for managingPennsylvania’s share of funds received from the nationwide Soybean Checkoff program.
Checkoff funds are used for implementing a program of promotion, research, consumer information, and industry information designed to strengthen the soybean industry’s position in the marketplace, to maintain and expand existing domestic and foreign markets and uses for soybeans and soybean products, and to develop new markets and uses for soybeans andsoybean products.
The Pennsylvania Soybean Board is a farmer-controlled Board responsible for managingPennsylvania’s share of funds received from the nationwide Soybean Checkoff program. The funding is available under an assessment program, approved by Congress in 1990, under which soybean farmers contribute 50 cents of every $100 they receive for their beans at the first point of sale. Funds are used to develop markets, educate consumers, and research newways to utilize and produce soybeans more efficiently. For more information, visit pasoybean.org.
For more information, contact:
Jennifer Reed Harry, Executive Director
jrharry@pennag.com
(717) 651-5922
