About Us
About Us
TEGMA is a North American trade association who members include grain shippers and receivers, as well, as many related business including transportation companies, ports, and inspection agencies. TEGMA is embarking on an initiative to:
Define its new role in the grain industry
Develop a new structure for serving its members
Create a fresh vigor to its activities
The association recently concluded a review of its activities and believes it can best bring value to its members by being focused on operational and business issues facing its members. As a result, the association's Board of Director's has approved this new mission statement:
TEGMA seeks to provide a forum where the grain-based agribusiness industry can debate, discuss and facilitate resolution of operational and business issues bringing insight to its membership and stakeholders.
TEGMA recognizes there may also be occasions where it will engage in issue advocacy on matters of specific interest to its members.
TEGMA's core beliefs include these items:
TEGMA supports the premise of open and competitive markets for the efficient distribution of agricultural commodities.
TEGMA supports business-oriented issue resolution that does not involve the formal regulatory process whenever practicable.
TEGMA holds several meetings each year: a fall symposium in a Midwest city where the focus is on operational and business issues, a Winter meeting where the focus is more on macro issues, and a spring meeting focused on the eastern corn belt.
Board Members
Officers
Chairman
Aaron Reid, JDH
First Vice Chair
Trent Schairer, Bartlett Grain Company
Second Vice Chair
Justin Cauley, CHS
Executive Director
Erica Venancio - TEGMA
Director of Member Services
Zach Helder - TEGMA
Directors
Travis Antonsen, Agtegra Cooperative
Angela Caddell, BNSF Railway
Ross Edwards, Viterra
Chad Hartwig, The Greenbrier Companies
Jason Hess, Union Pacific Railroad
Kia Mikesh, North Dakota Grain Inspection
Billy Shortal, Scoular
Craig Toews, Louis Dreyfus Co.