Miller Named Idaho Farm Bureau CEO

The Idaho Farm Bureau has a new CEO and Executive Vice President. Last week, the organization announced the Zak Miller will replace the retiring Rick Keller on June 1^st. Miller joined IFBF in 2014 and has served on the organization’s management team the past three years. He has also served as director of commodities and as manager of the Farm Bureau Marketing Association for the past three years.

“The board of directors has confidence in Zak’s vision and leadership ability to continue to lead Farm Bureau into the future,” said IFBF President Bryan Searle, a farmer from Shelley.

“I am humbled and excited to be entrusted with the responsibility to help lead such a great organization with such dynamic members and leaders,” Miller said.

Prior to joining Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, Miller worked at Cargill Animal Nutrition as a consultant, working with farmers and ranchers throughout the Intermountain West for nine years. Miller, who is a native of southeast Idaho, is also a partner on his family’s fifth-generation farm in St. Anthony and earned a bachelor’s degree in ag business and animal science from BYU-Idaho. Miller and his wife, Marcy, live in Rigby with their four daughters.

IFBF represents more than 80,000 member families throughout Idaho including 14,000 who are actively involved with the state’s agricultural sector.

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