Perry Meyer

Biography

Perry Meyer was elected to the CHS Board of Directors in 2014. He serves as a member of the Board’s Audit and Corporate Risk committees. He currently serves as a director for Heartland Corn Products Cooperative, a board on which he has served since 1992. Meyer also is a member of and active in a broad range of other cooperative and agricultural organizations including United Farmers Co-op, Winthrop, Minn.; South Central Grain and Energy, Fairfax, Minn.; River Region Co-op, Sleepy Eye, Minn.; Minnesota Farm Bureau, Minnesota and Nicollet County corn growers associations and Minnesota Pork Producers Association.  Meyer serves as president of the Steamboat Pork Cooperative, Lafayette, Minn. He is chairman of the NU-Telecom Board, which he has served on since 1995, and a director for the Minnesota Valley Lutheran School Foundation. He is past director for the former CHS Oilseed Defined Investment Board and has previously held leadership roles on numerous local government boards as well. Meyer holds a degree in agricultural mechanics from Alexandria (Minn.) Technical School. He attended the CHS New Leaders Forum in 1985 and is a 2006 graduate of the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership (MARL) program. Along with his daughter and son-in-law, Meyer operates a 2,500-acre corn and soybean farm near New Ulm, Minn., and finishes 12,000 hogs annually.  

Research Interest

 Agricultural mechanism