Our stockholders have elected two local agriculture leaders to continue serving on the board of directors for our financial cooperative. The elected board members, who are stockholders themselves, are responsible for establishing policies, providing strategic direction, and overseeing all major institution functions for the association.

The individuals elected were:

• Larry H. Gibson Jr, fulfilling a four-year term in West Region 1

• Annie Dee, fulfilling a four-year term as an At-Large position

Mr. Gibson resides in Aliceville, Alabama with his wife Suellen and they have two children. He is president and owner of Gibson Forest Management, Inc., a Pickens County, AL-based forestry consulting firm established in 1994, and Gibson Timberlands, LLC, a land and timber company. Mr. Gibson is a Registered Forester in Alabama and Mississippi, and he manages approximately 60,000 acres of timberland for clients in West Alabama and East Mississippi where he provides complete forest management services. He also owns approximately 2,300 acres of timberland in Pickens and Sumter counties in Alabama, where timber and wildlife are the primary commodities.

Ms. Dee resides in Aliceville, Alabama. Ms. Dee and her husband Ed have five children and six grandchildren. She has been farming all of her adult life. She is president and part owner of Dee River Ranch, a Pickens County, AL-based, family-operated 10,000-acre farm where the principal commodities produced are corn and soybeans. In addition, Dee River Ranch has pine and hardwoods planted on part of the farm. Ms. Dee is part owner and manager of Dee Farm, a general partnership which runs the farming operations located at Dee River Ranch, and Dee Farm Equipment, LLC. The farm also engages in collaborations with several universities in irrigation research projects, and crop variety and fungicide trials.

Our board of directors is comprised of nine members: six elected by customer-stockholders and two appointed Directors. The 2025 Annual Meeting was held on May 1, 2025. All voting stockholders received, by mail, a ballot with instructions on how to vote via mail or online. Voting was active from May 14, 2025, through the end of day June 5, 2025.