2017 Farm Service Agency County Committee Election Report TABLE of CONTENTS

2017 Farm Service Agency County Committee Election Report TABLE OF CONTENTS Section I • Executive Summary Section II • National Totals o Total Ballots Cast in 2017 o Total Eligible Voters in 2017 o Total Nominees in 2017 Section III • Total Eligible Voters by State Section IV • Total Ballots Cast by State • Nominees and Votes Received listed by: o Nominee Name o Votes Received Section I Executive Summary Executive Summary of National Data Overview: This report contains county committee election and nomination data as reported by Farm Service Agency (FSA) county offices following the county committee elections conducted in December 2017 and includes data from 30 (2017) makeup elections held in January 2018. Single counties are divided into three Local Administrative Areas (LAAs). Jurisdictions where two or more counties are combined are composed of three to eleven LAAs. The majority of the county committees represent single county jurisdictions. A county committee election is held each year in one LAA in rotation with the other LAAs. In LAA jurisdictions of 4 or more, two or more LAAs may hold elections in a given year. Elections are conducted in this manner for a three-year term for each county committee member, after which the seat of a member serving three years must be up for election again. County committee members are limited to three consecutive three-year terms. After a member serves three consecutive terms, the member must remain off the committee for at least one year before being eligible to run again. The data provided in this report represents only those LAAs that conducted elections in 2017. Election results were reported in 2,458 COC jurisdictions in 2017. The data in this report reflects approximately one third of the county committee members. Explanation of Report Data: The data in this report is required to be submitted to the Secretary as specified in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (Act), Public Law107-171. Section 10708 amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, Section 2501. The information required for this report is listed below: (a) the number of eligible voters in the area covered by the county, or area committee (b) the number of ballots cast in the election by eligible voters (including the percentage of eligible voters that cast ballots (c) the number of ballots disqualified in the election (d) the percentage that the number of ballots disqualified is of the number of ballots received (e) the number of nominees for each LAA up for election (f) the final election results (including the number of ballots received by each nominee) Summary of National Data: The National Summary is as follows: • A total of 1,702,213 eligible voters were associated with 10,457 LAAs holding an election in 2017 • The total number of ballots cast in LAAs holding an election was 186,542 • The percentage of eligible voters casting ballots was 11% • The number of nominees that were up for election was 4,952 • The total ballots disqualified were 18,828. The total nominees for 2017 by race, ethnicity, and gender are: • American Indian/Alaskan Native: male – 97, female – 22 • Asian: male – 11, female – 6 • Black/African American: male – 211, female – 42 • Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: male – 7, female – 3 • White: male – 3803, female – 750 • Hispanic/Latino: male – 73, female – 19 Section II National Totals Total Eligible Ballots Cast by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in 20171 American Indian or Black or African Native Hawaiian or Gender Ethnicity Alaska Native Asian American Other Pacific Islander Unknown White Total Ballots Cast by Race2 Female Hispanic or Latino 74 1 40 2 65 879 1061 Not Hispanic or Latino 163 211 235 130 3876 4615 Unknown 36 68 246 65 1349 1679 3443 Female Total 273 280 521 197 1414 6434 9119 Male Hispanic or Latino 72 5 16 18 143 800 1054 Not Hispanic or Latino 687 170 961 183 46706 48707 Unknown 234 49 511 56 549 14820 16219 Male Total 993 224 1488 257 692 62326 65980 Organization/Female-Owned Hispanic or Latino 2 0 2 7 11 Not Hispanic or Latino 6 17 91 1 105 2947 3167 Unknown 20 0 3 0 302 709 1034 Organization/Female-Owned Total 26 17 96 1 409 3663 4212 Organization/Male-Owned Hispanic or Latino 0 0 8 63 71 Not Hispanic or Latino 172 21 188 3 139 5753 6276 Unknown 0 4 17 4 661 4075 4761 Organization/Male-Owned Total 172 25 205 7 808 9891 11108 Organization/Other Hispanic or Latino 2 0 3 0 132 389 526 Not Hispanic or Latino 219 73 357 25 171 70254 71099 Unknown 64 11 197 11 1968 17881 20132 Organization/Other Total 285 84 557 36 2271 88524 91757 Unknown Hispanic or Latino 0 1 0 8 90 99 Not Hispanic or Latino 8 11 50 17 450 773 1309 Unknown 1 3 7 19 2470 458 2958 Unknown Total 9 15 57 36 2928 1321 4366 Total Ballots Cast by Race2 1758 645 2924 534 8522 172159 186542 1 Represents only thos LAA's in which an election was held in 2017 2Due to producers' ability to select more than one race, the Total Ballots Cast may be more than LAA Total Ballots Cast in the Ballot Summary Table Total Eligible Voters by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in 20171 Total Ballots Sent by American Indian or Black or African Native Hawaiian or Gender and Gender Ethnicity Alaska Native Asian American Other Pacific Islander Unknown White Ethnicity Female Hispanic or Latino 1406 50 367 57 503 8155 10538 Not Hispanic or Latino 1493 2239 3073 1508 30578 38891 Unknown 308 614 2244 650 9379 13171 26366 Female Total 3207 2903 5684 2215 9882 51904 75795 Male Hispanic or Latino 954 65 309 186 1629 7796 10939 Not Hispanic or Latino 12353 4179 9607 2479 406990 435608 Unknown 4379 642 5693 532 5369 126940 143555 Male Total 17686 4886 15609 3197 6998 541726 590102 Organization/Female-Owned Hispanic or Latino 16 1 21 165 203 Not Hispanic or Latino 110 140 749 34 682 21290 23005 Unknown 257 7 17 8 2427 5388 8104 Organization/Female-Owned Total 367 147 782 43 3130 26843 31312 Organization/Male-Owned Hispanic or Latino 19 1 141 564 725 Not Hispanic or Latino 3825 194 1466 61 1163 44072 50781 Unknown 17 28 177 36 5437 30063 35758 Organization/Male-Owned Total 3861 222 1643 98 6741 74699 87264 Organization/Other Hispanic or Latino 10 1 106 3 2059 4558 6737 Not Hispanic or Latino 2835 810 3129 199 1513 647632 656118 Unknown 1561 243 2639 145 15062 197014 216664 Organization/Other Total 4406 1054 5874 347 18634 849204 879519 Unknown Hispanic or Latino 44 3 1 70 620 738 Not Hispanic or Latino 84 95 688 193 3245 7214 11519 Unknown 37 31 85 180 25430 4265 30028 Unknown Total 165 129 774 373 28745 12099 42285 Total Ballots Sent by Gender and Ethnicity 29692 9341 30366 6273 74130 1556475 1706277 1Represents only those LAAs in which an election was held in 2017 2Due to Producers' Ability to select more than 1 race may be greater than the actual number Total Nominees by Race, Ethnicity and Gender in 20171 Native Hawaiian American Indian or Black or African Total Nominees Gender Ethnicity Asian or Other Pacific White Alaska Native American by Race2 Islander Female Hispanic or Latino 2 17 19 Not Hispanic or Latino 20 6 42 3 733 804 Female Total 22 6 42 3 750 823 Male Hispanic or Latino 4 1 68 73 Not Hispanic or Latino 93 11 210 7 3735 4056 Male Total 97 11 211 7 3803 4129 Total Nominees by Race2 119 17 253 10 4553 4952 1Represents only those LAA's in which an election was held in 2016 2Write-ins included Section III Total Eligible Voters by State On the following reports Unknown is used when the records do not specify the ethnicity or race of the individual. Eligible Voters by State 20171 Native American Black or Hawaiian or State Gender Ethnicity Indian or Asian African Unknown White Grand Total Other Pacific Alaska Native American Islander Alabama Female Hispanic or Latino 4 5 13 112 134 Not Hispanic or Latino 23 72 240 137 294 766 Unknown 3 13 96 38 10 240 400 Female Total 30 90 336 175 23 646 1300 Male Hispanic or Latino 3 1 19 1 219 243 Not Hispanic or Latino 84 39 537 80 8568 9308 Unknown 5 4 300 7 27 3101 3444 Male Total 92 44 856 87 28 11888 12995 Organization/Female-Owned Hispanic or Latino 1 1 Not Hispanic or Latino 125 1 178 304 Unknown 18 46 64 Organization/Female-Owned Total 125 19 225 369 Organization/Male-Owned Hispanic or Latino 1 15 16 Not Hispanic or Latino 126 300 1186 1612 Unknown 2 17 238 257 Organization/Male-Owned Total 128 318 1439 1885 Organization/Other Not Hispanic or Latino 1 259 33 14084 14377 Unknown 248 42 6331 6621 Organization/Other Total 1 507 75 20415 20998 Unknown Hispanic or Latino 3 3 Not Hispanic or Latino 56 31 91 178 Unknown 6 365 163 534 Unknown Total 62 396 257 715 Alabama Total 123 134 2014 262 859 34870 38262 Alaska Female Hispanic or Latino 1 4 5 Not Hispanic or Latino 2 3 2 7 Unknown 6 2 8 Female Total 9 3 8 20 Male Hispanic or Latino 5 5 Not Hispanic or Latino 4 1 2 151 158 Unknown 21 21 Male Total 4 1 2 177 184 Organization/Female-Owned Not Hispanic or Latino 9 9 Organization/Female-Owned Total 9 9 Organization/Other Not Hispanic or Latino 207 207 Unknown 44 44 Organization/Other Total 251 251 Unknown Not Hispanic or Latino 8 2 10 Unknown 1 2 3 Unknown Total 9 4 13 Alaska Total 13 4 2 9 449 477 Arizona Female Hispanic or Latino 872 1 90 963 Not Hispanic or Latino 8 2 116 126 Unknown 12 356 59 13 440 Female Total 892 358 1 59 219 1529 Male Hispanic or Latino 11 4 2 16 33 Not Hispanic or Latino 1363 2 8 1 228 1602 Unknown 2366 8 2 84 2460 Male Total 3740 2 20 5 328 4095 Organization/Female-Owned Hispanic or Latino 2 2 Not Hispanic or Latino 18 18 Unknown 2 2 Organization/Female-Owned Total 22 22 Organization/Male-Owned Hispanic or Latino 1 4 5 Not Hispanic or Latino 3 91

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