The Illinois Farm Bureau has a new president, and a familiar one.

Illinois Farm Bureau delegates elected Philip Nelson from Seneca as the organization’s 17th president.

He received 55.6% of the vote, with incumbent Brian Duncan getting 42-percent of the vote.   Duncan served one term as president of the state’s largest farm organization. 

Nelson previously served as LaSalle County Farm Bureau president, Illinois Farm Bureau vice president from 1999 to 2003 and then as IFB’s 14th president from 2003 to 2013.

Duncan’s vice president Evan Hultine of Bureau County, as re-elected as Illinois Farm Bureau’s vice president, WAS re-elected beating challenger Mark Litteken 52 to 48 percent.

Hultine is a sixth-generation farmer who grows corn, soybeans and seed corn on a 1,300-acre farm with his parents.

Here's a wrap of Nelson and Hultine's comments following their respective elections Monday night:

 

 

Both Nelson and Hultine will serve 2-year terms.