Board of Directors

Mike is a seven-year IPPA board member. He serves on the Marketing and Pork Pac committees, and was the chair of the Production Tech/Industry Services committee for two years. He is from DeKalb County and is employed by Illini Farms. There he has a farrow-to-finish operation, both commercial production and genetic multiplication. Mike and his wife, Gayle, have two sons, Darrin and Tyler, and three granddaughters, Brynn, Eden, and Charlee. Being involved in IPPA has helped Mike be in closer contact…

Darren is a fourth-year member of the IPPA board but has been involved with the Western Illinois Pork Producers since 2005. He will be serving on the PAC and Industry Services and Production Technology/Research Committees. He is part owner of a 5,000-sow breed-wean operation on his 5th generation family farm that producers approximately 130,000 pigs per year. He is also a partner in a 1,700-acre corn & soybean operation. He and his wife, Andrea, have been married since 2005 and have 2 children,…

Blane and his wife Kristi live with their four children outside of Elkhart. They raise purebred Durocs with a focus on showpig and breeding stock production.  The Olsons market hogs all over the county and Blane also judges swine shows at the local, state and national level.  Blane and Kristi also operate a corn and soybean farm with his parents in southern Logan County. Blane serves as the Central Director on the United Duroc Swine Registry. Additionally, he serves on the Purebred Swine…

Alan is serving as the 2021 Illinois Pork Producers Association President. During his years on the board he has served on a variety of committees including State Fair, Production Tech/Research, and Committee Chair for Education and Youth.   He is a third generation farmer from Effingham County. On the farm, he has a contract barn with 1,000 head in a feeder-to-finish operation, 40 show pig sows, and a small grain farm of corn and soybeans.   Alan and his wife, Michelle, have been married…

Josh Maschhoff, wife Angela, and sons Kyler and Brayson reside in Nashville, IL.  Josh is a Production Director for The Maschhoffs with primary responsibility for 25,000 sows and associated finishers between Southern Illinois and Missouri.  He has worked in production operations for 6 years and prior to that wrote CNMPs and constructed sow farms and finishing facilities across the state.  Josh is also part of the 6th generation of the family business.