ARBITRATION APPEALS PANEL
Committee Chairman: Jay Mathews, Chief Executive Officer, Prairieview Grain Trading LLC, Champaign, IL
NGFA Staff Liaisons: Charlie Delacruz and Mary Hitchcock
This committee is the linchpin of one of the NGFA’s premier member services – the unique and time-honored Arbitration System that provides the industry with a knowledgeable, cost-effective and expedient method for resolving trade disputes involving grain, feed and grain products; barge freight and secondary rail freight. The existence of the NGFA’s Arbitration System reduces the need to resort to costly, time-consuming judicial proceedings, and contributes to the orderly marketing of grain, grain products, feed and feed ingredients.
| Name | Title | Organization | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Baer, III | President | Livestock Nutrition Center | Memphis, TN |
| Jean Bratton | Chief Executive Officer | Centerra Cooperative | Ashland, OH |
| Sean Broderick | DDGS Marketing | CHS | Inver Grove, MN |
| Charles Elsea | Chief Strategy Officer | The Redwood Group LLC | Salina, KS |
| Robert Geers | Merchandising Manager | Michigan Agricultural Commodities | Lansing, MI |
| Craig Haugaard | Grain Division Manager | Superior Ag | Huntingburg, IN |
| Dennis Inman | Vice President, Grain | Central Farm Service | Truman, MN |
| Jay Mathews | Chief Executive Officer | Prairieview Grain Trading LLC | Champaign, IL |
| Edward P. Milbank | President | Milbank Mills Inc. | Chillicothe, MO |
| Steven F. Nail | President & CEO | Farmers Grain Terminal Inc. | Greenville, MS |