Olson Elected President of WFBF, Krentz Re-elected President of Rural Mutual Insurance Company

Brad Olson

MADISON – Brad Olson was elected president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation. Olson is a crop farmer near Frederic in Polk County. Joe Bragger from Independence in Buffalo County was re-elected to serve as WFBF Vice President.

Brad and his wife, Vicky, farm more than 600 acres of crops and are members of Polk-Burnett Farm Bureau. They have two children and two grandsons.

Olson was first elected to the WFBF Board of Directors in 2022 to represent District 9 (Barron, Dunn, Chippewa, Pierce, Polk Burnett, Rusk, St. Croix, Sawyer and Superior Shores Farm Bureaus).

Kevin Krentz was re-elected president of the Rural Mutual Insurance Company. Krentz is a dairy farmer from Berlin in Waushara County. Dave Daniels of Union Grove in Kenosha County was elected first vice president of the Rural Mutual Insurance Company Board.

Krentz was first elected to the WFBF Board of Directors in 2012 to represent District 5, which includes: Adams, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Juneau, Marquette, Waushara and Winnebago counties.

Kevin is president of Krentz Family Dairy, Inc. He has 600 cows and 1,300 acres of crops. Kevin and his wife, Holly, have a daughter and three sons.

Nine of the 11 members of the WFBF Board are elected in each of Farm Bureau’s nine districts. These nine individuals also make up the Board of Directors for the Rural Mutual Insurance Company. Rounding out the WFBF’s Board are the chairs of WFBF’s Young Farmer and Agriculturist and Promotion and Education Committees, both of which are elected to serve a one-year term on the board.

Dan Meyer of Manitowoc County was elected to a three-year term in District 6 (Brown, Calumet, Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties). Dan is a dairy and crop farmer near Kiel.

In a special election, Kim Bremmer of Loyal in Clark County was elected to a two-year term representing District 8 (Clark, Lincoln, Marathon, Portage, Price, Taylor and Wood counties). Kim owns Ag Inspirations, LLC, a communications and marketing business for production agriculture. Bremmer succeeds Ryan Klussendorf of Medford in Taylor County.

Arch Morton Jr. of Janesville in Rock County was re-elected to a three-year term on the board representing District 2 (Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Green, Rock and Sauk counties).

Joe Bragger of Independence in Buffalo County was re-elected to a three-year term on the board representing District 4 (Buffalo, Eau Claire, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe and Trempealeau counties).

Brenda Dowiasch from Eau Claire County was re-elected to a one-year term as the chair of the Promotion and Education Committee and will serve as the representative on the WFBF Board.

Kat Peper of Rock Springs in Sauk County was elected to a one-year term as chair of the Young Farmer and Agriculturist Committee and will serve as the representative on the WFBF Board. She succeeds Savannah Brown of Jackson County as YFA Chair.

Board members who were not up for re-election included: Dave Daniels of Union Grove in Kenosha County, Robert Nigh of Viroqua in Vernon County, Kevin Krentz of Berlin in Waushara County, Brian Preder of Weyauwega in Waupaca County and Brad Olson of Frederic in Polk County.

Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is the state’s largest general farm organization. Made up of 61 county Farm Bureaus, it represents farms of all sizes, commodities and management styles.