Over the next month we will be highlighting all six of our senior board candidates. Three new board members will be elected from the pool of candidates at the AHA Educational Forum and Annual Meeting at the end of October.

Everhart Herefords is a 50-year purebred operation consisting of 25 head. The operation sells bulls, steers and heifers to commercial and junior members in the Midwest and utilizes grass and wood pastures not suitable for corn and soybean production. Its herd was built on junior heifers purchased annually from Wiese and Sons over a 15-year period. Breeding some of the best females from this iconic herd to some of the most elite bulls of the breed has produced champions at state and national shows. The highlights of the program are raising the reserve supreme heifer at the Indiana State Fair and the reserve national champion female at the JNHE.

Bruce recently retired after a 40-year career in ag banking. He managed an ag banking team in the Midwest with Wells Fargo Bank. Bruce is also a board member and past president of the Indiana Herford Association. He has served leadership roles in hosting three extremely successful JNHEs in Indiana. He is currently the vice chairman and finance chair of the Hereford Youth Foundation of America and a board member of the Hereford Legacy Fund, LLC.

Bruce also serves on the Rush Shelby Energy cooperative board and is a member of the Indiana State Fair Commission. He and his wife of 38 years, Shoshanna, have two children — son, Blake, and his wife, Ashley, and daughter, Jordan, and her husband, Brian — and six grandchildren.