Vince Kieffer joins local Farm Credit office

Published on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:08 AM MST

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Vince Kieffer of Pima has joined the Farm Credit Services Southwest staff as the crop insurance specialist.

He will be based out of the Rural Arizona office located in Safford and will be responsible for the administration of all federal crop programs and crop hail policies throughout Arizona and the Imperial Valley in California.

For the past 10 years, Kieffer has been selling crop insurance in the Safford and Willcox areas. He has also farmed cotton in the Safford Valley for the past 22 years and currently farms 450 acres of cotton and alfalfa.

In addition to his extensive agricultural knowledge and experience, he served as the Pima town manager for two years, served on the Pima Town Council for 11 years, served eight years as mayor and is currently a member of the Pima School Board. He has also served as a member of the Pima Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department as an FF/intermediate emergency medical technician for the past 20 years.

Kieffer and his wife of 22 years, Lisa, have two children.

Their son, Jerryd, is serving a mission for his church in Bogota, Colombia; and their daughter, JayAnn, is a sophomore at Pima High School.

FarmCredit Services Southwest is a member-owned cooperative that provides credit and credit-related services to, or for the benefit of, eligible borrowers/stockholders for qualified agricultural purposes in the state of Arizona and in the Imperial Valley.

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