Welcome Bert Farrish!

Bert Farrish

President, Feed and Industrial Products Division

Greenshift, Inc

October 2011 – Present

Director

McClave State Bank
October 2007 – Present (4 years 5 months)
Community Ag Lending Bank

Chief Executive Officer
LifeLine Foods, LLC

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Food Production industry:  49 percent ownership from ICM, Inc; and 51 percent ownership from AgraMarke Quality Grains.

October 2009 – April 2011 (1 year 7 months)

President and Chief Executive Officer and Founding Partner
Everton Energy Biofuels Holdings & Everton Energy, LLC August 2006 – October 2009 (3 years 3 months)

Deputy Administrator for Commodity Operations
Farm Service Agency Government Administration industry June 2002 – August 2006 (4 years 3 months) Grade ES-4.  This Deputy Administrator is responsible for developing policies, regulations and disposition strategies for the dairy price support program; administration of the cotton Step II program; administration of the bio-diesel and ethanol bio-energy program; the storage, handling and disposition of CCC owned commodities; and, management of the export and domestic food assistance programs.

Captain, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers
January 1973 – January 1981 (8 years 1 month)

Likes reading, golf, flyfishing

Most info is from Linkedin but LOTS of information and pictures available on the net. 

Bert Farrish's Summary

Bert Farrish has nearly 30 years experience in all phases of the commercial grain industry. His focus was primarily on the export of grains and grain products to Asia. In 2002 he left his position as President of Columbia Grain, Inc.to accept a position as a Bush appointee at USDA as Deputy Administrator of Commodity Operations with the Farm Service Agency. In this position he had responsiblity for the CCC Bioenergy Program, The Dairy Program, Loan Deficiency Payments, partial resposibility for Crop Loan Rates, administration of the US Warehouse Act and partial responsbility for foreign and domestic food aid programs. Food Aid included working with USAID, the World Food Programme and the Child Nutrition Programs. All of these are of critical importance to US farm producers and the food aid community.

In August 2006 Bert left USDA to found a bioenergy company, Everton Enery, with two partners in Wichita, Kansas. Within one year he had arranged a legal, investment banking team, senior management team and a permitted site in Kansas. Unfortunately the financial crises starting in 2007 prevented a completion of project financing.  Bert continues to advise Everton Energy, LLC.

In September 2009, Bert accepted the CEO position with LifeLine Foods, LLC in St. Joseph, MO. LifeLine is a corn dry-milling company and an ethanol producer. LifeLine supplies corn dry-milled products to the food and beverage industries and for industrial use. The corn starch that is not used in food products is converted to fuel grade ethanol and coproduct for the animal feed industry.
Specialties
Corporate and association management
Investment banking
Goverment Service
Personnel management
Project development
Ethanol Industry

Very impressive resume and biography.  He is now listed as attending the National Ethanol Conference February 22 - 24, 2012 as a GreenShifter!  See it HERE.  Welcome aboard Bert!

SkunK