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Phillip Martin, Director
Enterprise, Alabama. Martin, age 75, resides in Enterprise, Alabama, and is retired from the US Postal Service. He obtained a bachelor of science in dairy science from the University of Tennessee and has been involved in the farming and dairy business most of his adult life. Mr. Martin owns, but now leases out, approximately 500 acres of farmland. He presently serves as vice-chairman of Alab...
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Jack Swanson, Director
Carmel Valley, California. Jack Swanson is an original founding member of Stewards of the Range and a long time friend of the Wayne and Jean Hage family. The organization was officially formed in 1992 when he unveiled the original oil he painted for the cause titled Stewards of the Range in Carmel California. Swanson is an internationally renowned western artist who is often referred to as t...
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Porter J. Martin, Director
Shabbona, Illinois. Martin is President of Porter Martin Farmland and Cattle Company, LLC. Throughout his real estate career, he has specialized in the acquisition, sale, management, appraisal and financing of agricultural properties in the Midwest and in California. Martin attended Iowa State University and the University of Illinois from which he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Agricul...
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Margaret Byfield, Executive Director
Taylor, Texas. Margaret was raised on a large cow calf operation in central Nevada. She became actively involved in the property rights movement after her parents, Wayne and Jean Hage, filed Hage v. United States in the Federal Court of Claims – a court battle that began in 1991 resulting in the most significant Fifth Amendment victory for property owners in the past two decades. She launched S...
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Dan Byfield, CEO
Taylor, Texas. From 1994 to 2009, Dan served as president of the American Land Foundation and now serves as the CEO of the merged association, American Stewards of Liberty. Dan is a writer, a speaker, and a part time lobbyist. Dan has served as a legislative aide to a Texas state senator leaving to become a lobbyist for agriculture with the Texas Farm Bureau, Farm Credit Bank of Texas, and brie...
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Carolyn Carey, Vice Chairman
Alturas, California Carey was born and raised in Napa, California. She attended the University of California, Davis. She owns and manages Born and Raised in the USA®, a USDA-approved label and verification system for the labeling and promotion of US beef, pork, and lamb. She is a part owner of Carey Ranches with operations in Modoc and Napa California. Carey's Ranch is certified organic a...
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Mike Dail, Chairman
Mason, Texas. Mike Dail grew up on a ranch in western McCulloch County, Texas that his family settled in the 1880’s. Dail graduated from Eden High School and Texas A & M University with a Bachelor of Business Administration. He and his wife currently own and operate a real estate business in Mason, Texas. The business specializes in the sale of ranches. Dail also maintains a ranching ope...
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