Love elected National Sorghum Producers chairman
The National Sorghum Producers board of directors elected Garrett Love of Montezuma, Kansas, as chairman at its annual August board and budget meeting.
“It is a great honor to step into this role and serve the growers who make up National Sorghum Producers,” Love said. “Sorghum has been an important part of not only my own farming operation, but also the operations of thousands of farmers across the sorghum belt. I understand firsthand the challenges and opportunities facing producers today. I’m grateful for the leaders who have built this organization and for the opportunity to work alongside our growers, staff and industry partners. I look forward to building on that work and making sure sorghum continues to have a strong voice as we look toward the future.”
Love is a farmer from southwest Kansas, where he grows sorghum, wheat, corn and soybeans and feeds cattle. He previously served in the Kansas Senate from 2011 to 2017 and chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee. He was also appointed by former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to chair the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency Committee for Kansas, where he served from 2017 to 2021.
In addition to Love, the NSP board of directors elected Scott Frazier of Chapman Ranch, Texas, as vice chairman. Frazier is a farmer who produces sorghum, cotton and corn and raises cattle. He has served on multiple boards in his community and at the state level. He is a graduate of the Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership Class XIV and represented Texas agriculture at the NAFTA hearing in Montreal in 2018. For more than two decades, Frazier has been engaged in agricultural advocacy in Washington and Austin, working on behalf of farmers and the broader agricultural industry. He was also appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott to the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority.
Amy France of Scott City, Kansas, will serve as past chair. Verity Ulibarri of Clovis, New Mexico, Tom Gregory of Petersburg, Texas, and Cody White of Lubbock, Texas, were also elected to the board as directors.
The NSP board of directors (pictured above) now includes:
- Garrett Love, chairman, Montezuma, Kansas
- Scott Frazier, vice chairman, Chapman Ranch, Texas
- Amy France, past chair, Scott City, Kansas
- Dustin Borden, Gruver, Texas
- Barry Evans, Kress, Texas
- David Drinnon, Vega, Texas
- Jim Sipes, Manter, Kansas
- Tom Willis, Liberal, Kansas
- Verity Ulibarri, Clovis, New Mexico
- Tom Gregory, Petersburg, Texas
- Cody White, Lubbock, Texas
- Larry Richardson, ex officio, Vega, Texas
Craig Meeker, past chairman from Wellington, Kansas; Marc Adams of Lubbock, Texas; and John Browning of Plainview, Texas, concluded their terms as directors in September and will be recognized for their service at the board’s annual meeting in December.
New directors and officers began their 2026 to 2028 board terms Oct. 1. View NSP’s entire leadership team at SorghumGrowers.com.
