Brandt elected, Huso re-elected to Wheat Commission Board

By: Erica Olson

Posted: May 1, 2025

County and district elections for District 2 (northwest ND) and District 5 (southeast ND) are complete and two producers were elected to serve four-year terms on the North Dakota Wheat Commission (NDWC) board. Scott Huso, Aneta, was elected to his second term as the District 5 Commissioner on the board, and Nate Brandt, Stanley, was elected to his first term on the board, representing District 2. The terms officially begin on July 1, 2025.

Brandt was elected as the Mountrail county representative in 2025 and subsequently elected as the District 2 Commissioner. He says he looks forward to his first term on the board, “I’m looking forward to learning more about the Commission’s goals and programs and learning about the value of our check-off investment,” said Nate, “This also provides me an opportunity to promote the quality wheat we grow in our state and the value it brings to customers.” He grows wheat, canola, soybeans, peas, lentils and flax. He is a board member on the Mountrail County Farm Bureau and is a member of the NDFB Young Farmers and Ranchers committee. Nate is also on the Mountrail County Crop Improvement Board and Stanley Ambulance Board.

Huso has been the Steele county representative since 2009 and was elected to his first term on the Commission board in 2021. Huso currently sits on the US Wheat Associates board of directors, is Vice Chairman of the Wheat Marketing Center and is the NDWC representative to the ND Ag Coalition. He was recently elected to the SBARE board. Scott has represented North Dakota wheat producers in many customer focused events including trade teams, NCI short courses and USW board travel and crop quality seminars. “My involvement with the Commission has connected me with breeders, researchers, grain buyers, millers, bakers, and ultimately, consumers of wheat-based foods. I feel my role on the Commission is to help educate farmers about what consumers want, and to help consumers learn about the highest quality wheat in the world, raised right here in North Dakota,” he said. Scott grows hard red spring wheat, hard red winter wheat, barley, canola, pinto beans, soybeans, canola and corn.

The Commission consists of seven producer board members, six of whom are producer elected and one appointed by the governor. Elections are held every four years to elect county representatives in the district and those representatives elect one producer from their respective district to the Commission board position. The Commission board is responsible for setting the budget and developing policy and programs for research, market development, domestic promotion, domestic policy and trade policy. County representatives elected to terms in 2025 are listed below (incumbents are noted with an asterisk *).

District 2

Burke – Eugene Christianson, Flaxton*

Divide – Jordan Kimball, Noonan

McKenzie – Erick Leiseth, Arnegard

Mountrail – Nate Brandt, Stanley

Renville– Parker Gates, Mohall

Ward– Duane Poynter, Sawyer

Williams – Brandon Hoffman, Williston

District 5

Barnes – Erik Flatt, Valley City*

Cass – Todd Ellison, Mapleton*

Dickey – vacant

Griggs – Luke Erickson, Aneta

LaMoure – Jordan Nitschke, Jud*

Ransom – Jacob Birklid, Fort Ransom

Richland – Jim Stallman, Mooreton

Sargent – Luke Anderson, Forman

Steele – Scott Huso, Aneta*

Traill – vacant