Schafer, Helle elected to Northwest FCS Board of Directors

Stockholders of Northwest Farm Credit Services re-elected John Helle of Dillon, Montana, and elected Derek Schafer of Ritzville, to the Northwest FCS Board of Directors. They will each serve five-year terms.

Derek Schafer is a full-time farmer and president of the Family Plow, Inc. and Homestead Family Grain Company; vice president of Schafer Ranch Ltd and More Prophet Seeding, Ltd.; and treasurer of Fields and Furrows Inc.

His fifth-generation family grain farm operation includes his wife, Susan, their two children and his parents. Schafer has been a Northwest FCS customer for 14 years and ha...