Corn Board

Bill Chase

Board Liaison to GSAT Committee

William “Bill” Chase, a corn grower near Wolsey, S.D., serves on the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), a farmer-led trade association with offices in St. Louis and Washington.

Chase, along with his wife and sons, raises corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and grass. They also run a cow-calf operation. He has been a farmer for 36 years and has been active in his state corn growers association since the 1990s.

On the national level, Chase serves on the NCGA Association Relations Committee, as the board liaison to the Grower Services Action Team and on the BNSF Railway Ag Business Council on behalf of NCGA. Previously, he chaired and vice-chaired NCGA’s Production and Stewardship Action Team, chaired the Association Relations Committee and served on its Public Policy Action Team.

Chase served as president of the South Dakota Corn Growers Association in 2008 and 2009, as vice president in 2006 and 2007 and as treasurer of SDCGA in 2005. He currently serves on the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council. Chase has been involved in public relations and market development at the state and national levels and has served as a delegate to the U.S. Grains Council.

He and his wife, Kathy, have four sons, Benjamin, Joseph, Nathan and Spencer; and three grandchildren, Avery, Courtney and Davis.

Founded in 1957, the National Corn Growers Association represents approximately 35,000 dues-paying corn growers and the interests of more than 300,000 farmers who contribute through corn checkoff programs in their states. NCGA and its 48 affiliated state associations and checkoff organizations work together to help protect and advance corn growers’ interests.