The Idaho AgCredit board consists of seven directors, including five directors who are also borrowers, elected by Idaho AgCredit members, and two directors elected by the board, including one "outside director" who must not be a borrower. Directors are responsible for representing the best interest of the organization and its borrowers.

Customers can impact the business by electing the board of directors who set policy.

Idaho Ag Credit board elections include a regional nominating process that ensures sound representation from throughout our seven-office area. Stockholders vote for all open positions since directors represent the interests of all stockholders.


Meet Our Board:

Chairman Mark Ricks
Felt, Idaho

Mark started farming in 1972 in partnership with his father Ray, and brother Bruce. Mark and Bruce own 230 acres and lease an additional 650 acres which they farm as M&B Ricks Farms, Inc., a family corporation. Mark also owns 346 acres of cultivated, irrigated land and Triple R Ranch, Inc., which owns an additional 1,100 acres of cultivated, irrigated land. Mark raises certified seed potatoes, malt and feed barley, and other small grains in Teton County. He has served as president and director of the Idaho Crop Improvement Association, director of the Fremont-Madison Irrigation District, and completed the Leadership Idaho Agricultural Training course. He and his wife Chris have four children and two grandchildren. He has been an Idaho AgCredit member since 1979, and a board member since March 2000.

Vice Chairman Twain S. Hayden
Arbon, Idaho

Twain farms in partnership with his brother Hans on ground their grandfather homesteaded. They raise wheat and alfalfa on 3,750 acres of deeded ground (all dry farm) and 250 acres of rented ground (irrigated). Twain has been a past ASCS Committee member and is a member of the Arbon School District Board. He and his wife, Michele, have two children. Twain has been an Idaho AgCredit member since 1982 and a board member since March 2004.

Kenneth S. Black
Burley, Idaho

Ken farms in a partnership with his nephew, Robert Davis, using the name Black Livestock. They jointly own 2,000 acres that are comprised of barley, alfalfa and meadow hay. Black Livestock owns 350 mother cows with a Forest and BLM allotment. They also maintain 1,500 head of cattle in their feedlot. Ken is a member of the Idaho Cattle Association and the Magic Valley Cattle Association and is active in his church. Ken is currently serving on the West Cassia Soil Conservation District Committee. Ken attended both CSI and Utah State University for two years majoring in mechanical engineering. He received an Associate's Degree in Business from CSI. He and his wife Nina have two children and two grandchildren. Ken has been an Idaho AgCredit member since 1993 and previously served on the Board from March 1999 to March 2011. Ken has been a board member since March of 2013.

Jennifer Robinson Ellis
Blackfoot, Idaho

Jennifer and her husband Shawn farm 1,700 acres of farm ground, run 700 head of mother cows and are joint-owners in a stocker-feeder grow lot. Jennifer serves on the Snake River FFA Alumni Advisory Committee, the Fish and Game Advisory Committee and is chairman of the Western Legacy Alliance. She has previously served as president of the Snake River PTA, chairman of the Wildlife Committee for the Idaho Cattle Association, chairman of the Idaho Cattle Women Council, president of the Idaho Cattle Association and chairman of the Blackfoot Hope House project. Jennifer has been an Idaho AgCredit member since 1990 and a board member since March 2011.

Mike Virtue
Blackfoot, Idaho

Mike is mayor of Blackfoot and has many years of accounting and auditing experience, including working as a senior auditor for Idaho State University from 2001 to 2005 and working from 1981 to 2001 for contractors for the Idaho National Laboratory as "Manager, Cost Accounting", "Manager, Payroll and Travel", "Manager, Management Evaluation (Internal Audit)", and several other related accounting and/or auditing positions. He grew up in Blackfoot, spent time in the Air Force, and earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from Idaho State University. Mike and his wife Mary Lu have four children. Mike has served as the Association’s outside director and board financial expert since March 2009.

Scott R. Giltner
Jerome, Idaho

Scott is a life-long resident of the Jerome area, and farms with his father and other family members. He is vice president of Giltner Trucking and Giltner Dairy and is president of Giltner Milk Transportation and GMT Logistics. The Giltner family operation milks 3,000 cows and owns 2,800 acres of irrigated land on which they raise feed including alfalfa and corn. They haul milk daily from about 70 dairy producers for the Jerome Cheese plant, as well as truck condensed milk to Minnesota and South Dakota and transport freight all over the United States. He is also vice president of the Magic Valley Chariot Association. Scott and his wife Holly have two children. Scott has been a board member since November 2007 and an Idaho AgCredit member since 1996.

Dennis W. Snarr
Roberts, Idaho

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