South Dakota farmer’s law background is useful in commodity board work

A South Dakota farmer says her background in the law is a good skill in commodity board work. Heather Beaner enjoyed a career as an Air Force lawyer until coming home to take over the family farm a decade ago. Beaner, who farms in northeastern South Dakota’s Spink County, says her military and law career cultivated a skillset useful in her current position on the South Dakota Soybean Checkoff Board.

“I’m good at analyzing situations, taking in information, focusing a group on a productive work product,” Beaner told Brownfield Ag News at Commodity Classic in New Orleans, “plus I’m a really good researcher and writer; it was one of strengths in the law.”

Beaner says she’s confident about the soybean market remaining strong, although she adds upheaval in eastern Europe puts that in question.

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