HARRISBURG, PA (March 7, 2024) – The Pennsylvania Soybean Board has announced new officer appointments for the 2024 Fiscal Year. Emily Landis, Pennsylvania Furnace, Centre County, Pa., has been elected to chair the Board.
Landis is a graduate of Penn State University with an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Systems Management and a graduate degree in Animal Science. Together with her parents, Landis and her family operate a 400-acre cash grain operation. In addition, along with her husband and son, she raises Registered Angus and Hereford cattle and purebred Hampshire sheep. She is also employed as an Executive Ag Relationship Manager with Horizon Farm Credit.
“I am fortunate to work with a diverse group of soybean producers on the Board who share an unwavering commitment to Pennsylvania agriculture,” says Landis. “As Chair of the Pennsylvania Soybean Board, I look forward to supporting soybean growers by investing checkoff funds in research, opportunities for new uses, and promotion.”
Other officers elected for the 2024 Fiscal year include Justin Jones (Bradford County), Vice Chair; Justin Knoebel (Columbia County), Treasurer; and Dylan Beam (Lebanon County), Secretary.
The Pennsylvania Soybean Board is a farmer-controlled board responsible for managing Pennsylvania’s share of funds received from the nationwide Soybean Checkoff program. There are currently 10 members on the Board.
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 and soybean products. 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.
The Pennsylvania Soybean Board is a farmer-controlled Board responsible for managing Pennsylvania’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 new ways 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
