ASTA is driven by its membership, which is represented by a board of directors comprised of members of the advisory council as well as all living past-presidents of the association, four division chairs, five committee chairs and an ex-officio state & regional association representative.

The advisory council is comprised of the association’s chair, first vice chair and second vice chair; general counsel, three most recent past-chairs; three directors-at-large, regional vice presidents representing U.S. northeast, southeast, southern, central, north central, northwestern and western regions; and representatives to/from the Canadian Seed Trade Association and the Mexican Seed Trade Association.

Officers

Regional Vice Presidents

Northwest Sheri Goldsmith Fusion Seed	North Central Jessi Strinmoen Shooting Star Native Seeds	Central Scott Beck Beck’s Superior Hybrids
Northeast Fraser Hetherington Stokes Seeds	Southeast Dan Jenkins Pairwise	South Luke Turner Turner Seed Co.
West John Marchese HeinzSeed	Representative to Canada VACANT	Representative from AMSAC Juan Labastida Enza Zaden North America, Inc.

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