Keith R. Olsen was elected a Class B Director in May 2007, having previously served as a Class B Director from 2002 to 2004. Mr. Olsen was elected President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation in 2002, and has been a member of its Board of Directors since 1992. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2004. He is also a director of Farm Bureau Life, Farm Bureau Mutual, and Western Ag. In February 2003 he became a director of Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Nebraska. Mr. Olsen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics in 1967, and since then has been raising dryland wheat and corn on 3,000 acres in southwest Nebraska. He is also a producer and marketer of certified wheat seed, and was a self employed tax practitioner for a number of years. |