CHS : Joe Barker named to leadership role for CHS Hedging

'Throughout his career Joe has brought to life the CHS leadership expectations particularly with his focus on his customers and guiding them to make the right decisions for the right reasons,' says Manny San Miguel, vice president, Risk Management Services. '

Barker joined CHS Hedging in 2000 and spent seven years providing price risk management consulting and services to a diverse group of commercial and producer customers in the Eastern Corn Belt region. In 2007, he moved to manage Kansas City office of CHS Hedging, including its trading floor activities. He continued to work directly with customers, as well, and was a member of the Kansas City Board of Trade, serving on the KCBT Clearinghouse Board as part of his role there. In 2014, he returned to the Indianapolis office in a leadership capacity for its branch operations. In his new role, Barker will be based out of the Inver Grove Heights office.

Barker began his agriculture career as the manager of a 440-head boar stud for Seaboard Farms in Kansas. He holds an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan University and earned his undergraduate degree in animal science from Kansas State University. As a native of Indiana, he grew up on a farm east of Noblesville.