About

Who we are and what we do

Plains Grains, Inc. (PGI) is a private, nonprofit wheat marketing organization dedicated to providing the link between producers of hard red winter (HRW) wheat, grain companies, and foreign and domestic flour millers to benefit all segments of the wheat industry.

Our mission is to:

  • Gather and deliver timely quality and production data.
  • Cultivate relationships between producers, elevators, grain handlers, and domestic and foreign millers.
  • Effectively market the quality characteristics of annual HRW wheat to interested buyers.

About Wheat Characteristics:

Leadership in action.

We serve the Great Plains and PNW states of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming and are guided by a board of directors who represent these states.

PGI – Board of Directors

  • Royce Schaneman – Executive Director
  • Larry Flohr – Chairman – Chappell, NE
  • Don Schieber– Vice-Chairman – Ponca City, OK
  • Les Peterson – Sec/Treas. – Ovid, CO
  • Mike McClellan – Past Chairman – Palco, KS
  • Stephen Baenziger – Lincoln, NE
  • E.G. Herl – Kansas City, KS
  • Jose Luis Fuente – Mexico City, MX
  • Ramon Galindo – Mexico City, MX
  • Kelly Spitzer – Wiley, CO
  • Scott McGarraugh – Perryton, TX
  • Chris Kolstad – Ledger, MT
  • Bruce Myllymaki – Stanford, MT
  • Joe Neal Hampton – Enid, OK

PGI – State Administrators

  • Steelee Fischbacher – Texas
  • Mike Schulte – Oklahoma
  • Justin Gilpin – Kansas
  • Brad Erker – Colorado
  • Royce Schaneman – Nebraska
  • Keith Kennedy – Wyoming
  • Jonathan Kleinjan – South Dakota
  • Jim Peterson – North Dakota
  • Kent Kupfner – Montana
  • Britany Hurst–Marchant – Idaho
  • Amanda Hoey – Oregon
  • Casey Chumrau – Washington