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 Raymond Parks
Blackfoot, Idaho

Raymond and his wife, Paula, own 1,600 acres and lease an additional 300 acres, on which they raise potatoes, sugar beets and wheat. Ray helped organize the Eastern Idaho Underground Water Users District and spent 14 years in the Idaho Legislature serving on both the appropriations and transportation committees. Currently, he is serving on the Potato Expo Board. He has been an ACA/PCA member since 1959, and a board member since 1994.




Vice 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 a PCA/ACA member since 1979, and a board member since March 2000.

Kenneth Black
Burley, Idaho

Ken, his wife, Nina, and brother, Jay, farm and ranch Black Livestock. Together, they own 2,000 acres, of which 550 acres are cultivated, irrigated acres where they raise barley, alfalfa, corn silage and meadow hay. They also own 350 head of beef cows and maintain an additional 1,600 head of feeder cattle in their feedlot. Ken is a member of the American Angus Association. He has been an ACA member since 1994, and a board member since 1999.

W. Brock Driscoll
Aberdeen, Idaho

Brock and his wife Tena own 275 acres individually and 6,700 acres with three brothers in Driscoll Brothers partnership, all irrigated. Brock manages 2,200 acres near Buhl and 2,500 acres in Pleasant Valley on which they grow sweet corn, sugar beets, potatoes, wheat and silage. Brock has served on the Aberdeen School Board, and is a director on the American Falls-Aberdeen Ground Water District Board, Driscoll Potatoes, Inc., and Driscoll Transportation, Inc. Brock and Tena have six children. Brock has been a PCA/ACA member since 1975 and a board member since March 2004.

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 a PCA/ACA member since 1982 and a board member since March 2004.




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 an ACA member since 1996.

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