Steve Fritel

Biography

Steve Fritel was elected to the CHS Board of Directors in 2003. He is a member of the Board’s Capital and Governance committees. Fritel has previously served as secretary-treasurer, first and second vice chairman of the CHS Board. He served four years on the former Harvest States Wheat Milling Defined Member Board and 21 years on the board of Rugby Farmers Union Elevator. He is a past board member of the North Central Experiment Station Board of Visitors, the North Dakota Farm and Ranch Business Management Advisory Board, and Envision. He is also a past board member of the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives where he represented CHS.  Fritel earned an associate’s degree from North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton. He has completed course work and been designated a Board Leadership Fellow by the National Association of Corporate Directors. Fritel is involved in a wide range of agricultural and co-op organizations. He raises cash grain, including spring wheat, barley, soybeans, edible beans, corn and confectionary sunflower on a family farm near Rugby, N.D. Along with his son, Fritel has continued to run his father’s 50-year-old family business which deals in the sale of farm grain storage and related equipment. 

Research Interest

 Agriculture