About Russ Kremer, President of Missouri Farmers Union

Russ Kremer is a diversified family farmer from Osage County,Missouri and president of the Missouri Farmers Union. His farming operation consists of naturally grown hogs, cattle, hay and vegetables. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Farmers Union and serves on their Budget and Audit and Membership committees.

Kremer is a board member of Cooperation Works, a national network of cooperative developers and was recently elected to the board of directors of the National Campaign of Sustainable Agriculture.

A Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Kremer is also chairman the MFU Cooperative Development Center, an advisory board member of the University of Missouri Sustainable Farm and Food Systems Program, a member of the Missouri Value Added Task Force, and a board member of the Missouri River Community Network. Formerly, he served as an adult agriculture educator and young farmer advisor at Westphalia and grew the program into one of the largest in the nation.

A past president of the Missouri Pork Producers Association, Kremer has served on the agricultural advisory committee of five different Missouri governors. He is actively working with various community based, value added, cooperative projects such as cooperative distribution; sustainable production, processing and marketing of livestock; organic dairy and vegetable processing; and biomass recovery.