Governance
Great Plains Ag Credit Senior Management Team
Tim McDonald, President and Chief Executive Officer
Upon completing his degree at West Texas State University, Tim joined Amarillo PCA as a loan officer in the Dumas branch office until 1992. He then transferred to the Amarillo office and continued his work as a lender and also became the association’s internal credit review coordinator. During his 20 year Farm Credit career, he also served as Executive Vice President, then Chief Credit Officer until appointed CEO in 2006. On a national basis, he serves on several Farm Credit Systemwide efforts, including the System Risk Management Workgroup and the Federal Farm Credit Funding Corporation’s Liquidity Workgroup.
Brandon Blaut, Chief Financial Officer
Brandon joined the central office staff in June of 2006. He holds a B.B.A. degree in finance from West Texas A&M University, and earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. In the spring of 2009, Brandon was selected to serve on the Federal Farm Credit Funding Corporation’s Liquidity Workgroup and has participated in the Tenth District Lending Systems Project Team. He has previous experience in commercial lending.
Doug Reinart, Senior Vice President, Chief Credit Officer
Doug began his financial career as a loan officer trainee at the Central Texas PCA in 1985 and served as Central’s vice president/branch manager from 1986-89. Prior to that, he farmed and was employed by an agribusiness company in the Hereford, Texas, area. In 1989, Doug came to work at the former Plainview PCA in their Plainview office. At the time of the merger, Doug transferred to the Amarillo central office where he now supervises credit operations. Doug is a cum laude graduate of West Texas State University.
Eddie York, Senior Vice President, Chief Lending Officer, and Amarillo Branch Manager
Eddie is an 18-year employee. He served as vice president at the association from 1998 through 2004 until his promotion to Senior Vice President. He was previously employed by the Clinton Production Credit association in Oklahoma. Eddie graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a master’s degree in business.
Larry Hammit, Senior Vice President, Operations and Corporate Secretary
Larry was employed by the Plainview PCA for 23 years, serving as Associate Vice President and loan officer in the Plainview and Silverton branch offices from 1976 until 1986 when he was promoted to Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary in the central office. In 1992 he became Executive Vice President and CFO in the Plainview central office where he served until the merger with Amarillo PCA. He has officed in Amarillo since 1999 and has worked in Farm Credit a total of 33 years. Larry received a B.B.A. degree from Baylor University.
Debra Wilfong, Vice President, Treasurer, Assistant CFO and Assistant Corporate Secretary
Debra has been an employee of the association for 27 years serving as branch office assistant, accounting department assistant and assistant treasurer. Ms. Wilfong was promoted to Treasurer in 1999 and to Vice President/Treasurer in 2002. While employed by the association, Ms. Wilfong received a B.B.A. degree in finance from West Texas State University. She was recently elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Farm Credit Business and Professional Women organization and serves on the Tenth District Lending Systems Project Team.
Great Plains Ag Credit Board of Directors
Dennis Anthony, Chairman, age 56, was elected to the Board in 1993 and serves on the Executive Committee. A graduate of Texas Tech University, he has been farming and a stockholder since 1986. He grows dryland milo and wheat, and some irrigated cotton in Parmer and Deaf Smith counties with his operation concentrated mostly toward livestock, including cattle feeding. He is also a stockholder in PACO Feedyard, Friona, Texas. Mr. Anthony is Chairman of the Human Resource Committee for GPAC and serves on the Marketing Committee. His term will expire in 2011.
Danny Detten, member of the Audit Committee and the Credit Review Committee, was elected to the Board in 1999. He lives near Panhandle and farms, pastures and feeds cattle in Carson, Potter, and Hutchinson Counties, raises irrigated and dryland wheat, feed grains, corn and cotton in partnership with his son. Danny, age 65, has been a stockholder since 1980 and is a lifetime farmer and stockman. His term expires in 2011.
Terry Sherrill serves as Chairman of the GPAC Audit Committee and was elected by the Board of Directors in January of 2004. He is 53 years old, a certified public accountant and has owned and operated a public accounting firm in Gruver since 1999. Prior to that time, he was the chief financial officer for two large agribusinesses in the Panhandle and was also employed by the accounting firm, Arthur Young and Company. He is an accounting graduate of West Texas State University. His term will expire in 2010.
Trent Finck was elected to the Board in May of 2006 where he serves as Chairman of the Human Resource Committee and alternate member on the Credit Review Committee. At age 49 he has been a farmer and rancher since his graduation in 1983 with a degree in Ag Economics from Texas Tech University. Trent has been a stockholder since 1983. His Swisher & Briscoe County operation includes a partnership with his father in which they jointly and individually operate a stocker cattle and cow-calf operation as well as irrigated and dryland wheat and milo, and irrigated cotton. His term expires in 2012.
Joe Reinart was appointed to the board in November of 2006, filling an unexpired term, and was subsequently elected for a three year term in the spring of 2007. Joe has been farming since 1973 in the Sherman/Dallam County area; focusing on irrigated corn, wheat and cotton in addition to stocker cattle. Joe is 54 years old and has been a stockholder of GPAC since 1975. He also serves as secretary of the Sunray Co-op Board. Joe is the Vice Chairman of the Board and Audit Committee, serves on the Marketing and his term with the Great Plains Board will expire in 2010.
Bryan Reinart, age 52, was elected to the Board in 2007 and serves as Vice Chairman of the Human Resources Committee. Bryan is a lifelong farmer and resides in Dimmitt, Castro County, Texas. His operation consists of irrigated cotton, wheat, milo and corn; in addition to dryland cotton, wheat, milo and pasture. He also serves on the boards of the Hereford Grain Coop and Castro County Farm Bureau. Bryan became a Great Plains stockholder in 1980. His term will expire in 2010.
Dan McWhorter was elected to the Board of Directors in June of 2009. Dan is the president and owner operator of Mc6 Cattle Feeders near Hereford. Feed for the yard, corn silage and wheat, is produced on the acreage surrounding it. In addition, Dan owns irrigated farmland near Uvalde, Texas that produces corn, wheat, cotton and vegetables; and runs cows on a ranch in Nebraska. Dan has been a stockholder at Great Plains since 2005 and is 62 years old. His term will expire in 2012.