The results from the 2011 United Benefits Group Board of Directors Election are now official, and Jim Carlson has been re-elected to another five-year term.  Jim, General Manager of First Cooperative Association of Cherokee, Iowa, has served on the Co-op Retirement Plan Committee and the United Benefits Group Board of Directors since 1999.  United Benefits Group would like to thank the other outstanding candidates in the election, Jim Magnuson, General Manager of Key Cooperative, Roland, Iowa, and Dale Piper, General Manager of Midwest Farmers Cooperative, Elmwood, Nebraska, for their willingness to participate as candidates from the northern area of UBG’s territory.

Other members of the United Benefits Group Board of Directors and the Co-op Retirement Plan Committee are Ken Hahn, General Manager of Planters Cooperative, Lone Wolf, Oklahoma;  Ed Foster, President/CEO of All Points Cooperative, Gothenburg, Nebraska; Dave Christiansen, President/CEO of Mid-Kansas Cooperative, Moundridge, Kansas; and Stan Stark, President/General Manager of Farmers Cooperative Co., Haviland, Kansas.