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2025 Board Candidates

Elections for President, & Districts I, III, IV

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RMFU is a member-driven organization. Guide our future by helping us select our next board members.

*All candidates are listed by position for which they are running and in order of nomination submission.

Candidate for President - Chad Franke

My name is Chad Franke and I am running for RMFU President. I was born and raised on the five generation family farm northeast of Akron, growing dryland wheat and feed, along with a cow calf operation. I received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University, then left agriculture for a number of years, working on airplanes, defense projects, and finally agricultural equipment designs.

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Candidate for District I - Danny Wood

I am Danny Wood I am the current district one director of RMFU. My wife Lorrie and son Zach and I have a dry land farming operation in the Peetz Colorado area. We raise wheat, corn , milo, and proso millet. I served on the Logan county conservation district for 12 years. I also served on the Logan county county committee for 13 years. 

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Candidate for District III - Bill Daughtery

My name is Bill Daughtery. I grew up on a fourth-generation farm which produced dry land crops and a cattle operation with my family near Pine Bluffs. I graduated from Pine Bluffs High School, attended Western Wyoming Community College. After an extensive career in the oil and gas industry working in different areas across the United States, I moved home and with my wife have raised six boys on the farm who will be the future of our operation and generations to come with our family.

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Candidate for District III - Jenna Anderson

My name is Jenna Anderson. My husband and I farm 650 acres of corn, barley, alfalfa, and sugar beets in the Wind River Valley west of Riverton, Wyoming. I am a 4th generation agriculturist, our family farm in New York celebrated its one hundredth year in 2024. I grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana. I attended school there as well as in Connecticut, Colorado, and Wyoming. I earned my teaching riding certificate, an AA degree in Equine Management and my teaching degree in secondary education. I taught for many years while my boys were growing up and now I am full time on the farm.

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Candidate for District IV - Todd Hagenbuch

Todd Hagenbuch has been an active Rocky Mountain Farmers Union member since he was elected the Secretary/Treasurer of the Northwest Colorado chapter in 2002. Shortly after taking that role, he was asked to participate in the first class of the reconstituted Fellows Program. He believed so much in the Farmers Union mission that he decided to run for Vice President of RMFU in 2004, a role he had until he had to quit in 2009 when he was hired by US Senator Michael Bennet to be the Northwest Colorado Regional Representative for the senator. 

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