2024 Director Candidate

Age: 67
Business address: 12043 County Route 79, Adams, NY 13605
Served by the Burrville Office

Business Experience (past 5 years): Owner and operator of Sheland Farms LLC, along with his brother Todd and sons Devon and Erik. Sheland Farms is a 900-cow dairy with 730 head of youngstock selling milk and breeding and marketing high genomic animals. The farm crops about 3,000 acres growing corn, wheat, soybeans and hay crops for its animals and marketing. The family also operates Sheland Farm Services, a business offering crop-related services from tillage to harvest and crop drying, including draghose manure injection application. Doug’s day-to-day includes office and management responsibilities and he applies most of the crop protectant applications.

Farm Credit/Community Involvement: Current Farm Credit East Director serving on the Governance/Stewardship Committee. Doug serves on the NYS Agriculture Commissioner’s Milk Market Advisory Council, the Jefferson County Agricultural Economic development advisory committee, and as chair of the Jefferson Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board. He previously served on the New York Farm Bureau Board and chaired the Jefferson County Agricultural Development Corporation. He served 10 years on the USDA-NRCS Agricultural Air Quality Taskforce and is graduate of LEAD NY class III. Doug has been Town Supervisor for four years and serves as chair of the Belleville United Methodist Council Board.

Business Interests/Affiliations: Sheland Farms LLC – owner/operator – operating entity with real estate and chattel ownership; Shel Land Properties LLC and Shel Land Properties 2 LLC with real estate ownership

Family members who transact business with Farm Credit East: Spouse, sibling, sons and nephews