Board of Directors

Joe White

Joe is the current President of the Kane County Farm Bureau and has been a member since 1975. He lives in Kaneville and farms 950 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and hay. Joe has been farming for 30 years. He farms with his father, with whom he shares equipment. Joe is the Kaneville Classics
4-H club contact leader, Kane County 4-H Foundation Member, Kane County Fair Assistant Superintendent (swine), and St. Galls church member. He and his wife, Bonnie, have four children.

Beth Gehrke

Beth is the current Vice President of the Kane County Farm Bureau. She is an owner/operator of Gehrke Family Farms in Elgin, raising corn, soybeans, hay, and straw on the farm along with her husband, Bob and children Wayne and Carolyn.

Chris Collins

Chris is the current Secretary/Treasurer of the Kane County Farm Bureau. He has operated a small grain farm in central Kane County for 35 years. He also worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation for 32 years supervising a traffic operations unit covering three counties in northeastern Illinois. He has been involved with Farm Bureau for many years and has also served on many of the working committees.