Tom Knudsen has been named vice president-agriculture and Richard Richter vice president-operations for Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, Wahpeton, N.D., according to President Gerald Shannon.
Knudsen, a graduate of North Dakota State University, joined Minn-Dak as an agriculturist in 1977. He was named agricultural manager in 1986. He is a member of the Sugarbeet Research and Education Board of Minnesota and North Dakota, the International Sugarbeet Institute committee, the committee of the Minnesota/North Dakota Grower Idea Contest and also is active in the Beet Sugar Development Foundation. Richter joined Minn-Dak as assistant factory manager in 1976 and was named factory manager in 1986. His sugar industry career began in 1958 as a campaign employee at the Great Western plant in Fremont, Ohio. Subsequent moves took him to Findlay, Ohio, to Lovell, Wyo., and then back to Fremont, where he was named assistant factory manager in 1973. Richter has completed technical schooling at the Beet Sugar Development Foundation, Fort Collins, Colo.
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