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In the 17th statewide election since Texas Corn Producers Board (TCPB) became a statewide entity in 1990, five board members were elected or re-elected in the organization’s biennial elections.
In Voting Region One, Robert Gordon of Hartley County and Michael Dee Vaughan of Moore County were re-elected. Additionally, Heath Hill of Sherman County and Marcus Lavake of Sherman County were elected to represent this region that covers the Panhandle. Daniel Berglund of Wharton County will continue to serve in Voting Region Four – covering the Coastal Bend region.
The Texas Department of Agriculture ratified the results of the election on Monday, December 8, 2025.
The five board members will be sworn in by the Texas Department of Agriculture during TCPB’s next board meeting on January 23, 2026. Each elected person will serve a 6-year term, or until 2032.
TCPB’s 15-member checkoff board includes elected Texas corn farmers from across the state representing five separate “voting regions.” The voting regions are designed so that each seat represents 1/15 of Texas’s total corn production, as reported by the Texas Crop Reporting Service.
This farmer-led board leverages funding from the voluntary checkoff program to create better marketing opportunities and a stronger future for Texas corn through key investments in the best applicable research, domestic and foreign demand and strategic programs.
News releases and legal notices on the referendum and elections were sent to major newspapers across the state. The voting period was from Nov. 3 – Nov. 17, 2025.
The next election will be in two years for five seats serving 6-year terms to begin in 2028.
