Arkansas/Missouri Nominating Committee Election

Corbin Brown

Wynne

Brown owns and operates his farm, primarily raising rice and soybeans. He also has a rental property business. Brown serves as a Director of the Cross County Rural Water Board, Arkansas Rice, and USA Rice, and President and a member of the Cross County Soil Conservation Board. He is a current member of the Master Masons. He previously served as a Deacon of the Wayne Presbyterian Church, Secretary and Treasurer of Delta Regional Airport and as President of the Cross County Farm Bureau. Brown has served on both Farm Credit Midsouth’s and Farm Credit Mid-America’s Nominating Committees.

Will Cashion

West Helena

Cashion is a full-time farmer, growing rice, corn, soybeans and wheat on approximately 6,500 acres in Phillips County and runs the day-to-day operations of his family farm alongside his uncle. He and his wife are raising their four children on the farm. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Agribusiness Management from the University of Arkansas. Cashion served as Board President for the Helena Country Club from 2017-2018 and served on the Phillips County Chamber of Commerce Board from 2020-2023. Cashion is a current member of the Farm Credit Mid-America Advocate Council.

Heath Donner

Manila

Donner farms 3,800 acres of cotton, peanuts, soybeans and corn with his father. He is married to Melissa and together they have four children. Donner holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Arkansas State University and is a graduate of the Peanut Leadership Academy. He is past president of the Mississippi County Farm Bureau and the former Finance Committee Chair at Nettleton Baptist Church. Donner currently serves as Chairman of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Peanut Commodity Division, is a Director on the Delta Peanut Board of Directors, and is an alternate delegate for both the Cotton Incorporated Board and National Cotton Council.

Mark Fincher

Dyess

Fincher and his wife, Mary, farm together as Fincher Farms Partnership. They own 1,000 acres and rent 2,000 acres, growing rice, soybeans and wheat. Mark’s grandfather moved to Dyess Colony in 1936 where he accessed 40 acres and farmed until he retired. His father also farmed in Dyess following his military service until his retirement. Now, Mark and Mary farm the same area and the same land that his grandfather and father owned and farmed during their farming careers. Fincher has worked on the family farm since he was old enough to help, growing his first crop in 1978; this year, he is heading into his forty-eighth crop, having seen many changes in the farming industry with more to come.

Drew Flowers

Palestine

Farm Credit Mid-America did not have biographical information for this candidate at the time of publication.

Murry Henderson, Jr.

Keiser

Henderson runs a cotton, rice, soybean and corn operation on 4,250 acres in Osceola through his business, Henderson Ag Service. He is also an agriculture pilot and the owner/operator of Lepanto Crop Service, a company that provides crop dusting services to farming operations in four counties.

Len B. Nall

Lake City

Nall is a full-time farmer and co-owner of Delta Farms Inc. in Lake City, Arkansas, farming more than 20,000 acres of corn, cotton, soybeans and peanuts, all irrigated. He has been actively farming for 32 years. Nall is a member-owner of Southland Gin Inc. in Lake City and a grain buying facility of corn and soybeans in Lake City. He also sits on the board of directors of the Craighead Electric Co-op.

Garrett Qualls

Lake City

Qualls farms 3,200 acres of cotton, corn, soybeans and peanuts.He has been a customer within the Farm Credit System for 15 years. Qualls served on the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Peanut Growers Association from 2022-2024.

Travis Senter II

Osceola

Senter manages and operates multiple family farm operations, specializing in the production of cotton, rice, corn and soybeans. Senter is involved in all parts of the operation including, but not limited to, financial planning, management, market trend analysis, logistics and technology applications. He is currently on the Arkansas State Plant Board and is a member of the South Mississippi County Intermodal Authority. Senter previously served on the Farm Credit Midsouth Nominating Committee and is currently a member of the Farm Credit Mid-America Advocate Council.

Chris Wood

Hickory Ridge

Wood has farmed for 29 years and is a full-time farmer raising rice, corn and soybeans on approximately 3,600 acres. He previously served on the Farm Credit Midsouth Nominating Committee and on the Farm Credit Mid-America Nominating Committee. Wood currently serves as a director for his local Farm Bureau and the Tilton Methodist Church. He was awarded Farm Family of the Year for Cross County, Arkansas in 2024.