Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934




Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported):		December 8, 2014

CHS Inc.

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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)




Minnesota	001-36079	41-0251095
_____________________ (State or other jurisdiction	_____________ (Commission	______________ (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation)	File Number)	Identification No.)

5500 Cenex Drive, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota		55077
________________________________ (Address of principal executive offices)		___________ (Zip Code)




Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:		651-355-6000

Not Applicable

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Former name or former address, if changed since last report

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On December 5, 2014, at the Annual Members Meeting of CHS Inc. ("CHS," "we" or "us"), each of the following directors was re-elected to the Board for a three-year term: Clinton J. Blew, Curt Eischens, Jon Erickson, Greg Kruger, Ed Malesich and Dan Schurr. The delegates also elected one new director, Perry Meyer, to serve a three-year term on the Board. Mr. Meyer fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Jerry Hasnedl. The following directors’ terms of office continued after the meeting: Donald Anthony, David Bielenberg, Dennis Carlson, Steve Fritel, Robert Bass, Alan Holm, David Johnsrud, David Kayser, Randy Knecht, and Steve Riegel.

Perry Meyer, 60, will represent members in Minnesota. Meyer brings to the CHS Board more than three decades of cooperative and agricultural leadership experience. Along with his daughter and son-in-law, he operates a 2,500 acre corn and soybean farm and finishes12,000 hogs annually. He currently serves as president of Heartland Corn Products Cooperative, a board on which he has served since 1992, and has been president of Steamboat Pork Cooperative since 1998. He also has served as a member of the NU-Telecom board since 1995 and is a past director of the former CHS Oilseed Defined Investor board. Meyer also is a member of and active in a broad range of cooperative, agricultural, local government, school and church organizations.

Following the Annual Members Meeting, the Board of Directors held the annual re-organizational meeting at which Board officers were elected. All of the Board officers were re-elected for a one-year term: David Bielenberg- was re-elected Chairman of the Board, Dennis Carlson- was re-elected First Vice Chairman of the Board, Daniel Schurr- was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Board, Steve Fritel was re-elected Second Vice Chairman of the Board and Curt Eischens was re-elected Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of the Board.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On December 8, 2014, we issued a press release announcing the results of the election of directors to the Board. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

d) Exhibits.



Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press release dated December 8, 2014.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.




	CHS Inc.

December 8, 2014	By:	/s/ Timothy Skidmore

		Name: Timothy Skidmore
		Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX



Exhibit No.		Description
99.1		Press release dated December 8, 2014.

Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For further information,

Contact: Lani Jordan

(651) 355-4946

lani.jordan@chsinc.com

Minnesota farmer joins CHS Board;

Oregon producer re-elected chairman

ST. PAUL, MINN. (December 8, 2014) - Perry Meyer of New Ulm, Minn., has been elected to a three-year term on the board of CHS Inc., the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company.

Minnesota delegates elected Meyer to the 17-member board at the recent CHS Annual Meeting on Dec. 5, 2014. He succeeds Jerry Hasnedl of St. Hilaire, Minn., who retired after 19 years. During its yearly reorganization session following the annual meeting, board members re-elected David Bielenberg of Silverton, Ore., to his third one-year term as chairman.

Meyer, 60, brings to the CHS Board more than three decades of cooperative and agricultural leadership experience. Along with his daughter and son-in-law, he operates a 2,500 acre corn and soybean farm and finishes12,000 hogs annually. He currently serves as president of Heartland Corn Products Cooperative, a board on which he has served since 1992, and has been president of Steamboat Pork Cooperative since 1998. He also has served as a member of the NU-Telecom board since 1995 and is a past director of the former CHS Oilseed Defined Investor board. Meyer also is a member of and active in a broad range of cooperative, agricultural, local government, school and church organizations.

He is a 1974 graduate of Alexandria (Minn.) Technical School with a degree in agricultural mechanics. He attended the CHS New Leaders Forum and is a graduate of the Minnesota Agriculture and Rural Leadership (MARL) program.

Also re-elected to one-year CHS Board leadership terms were:


•	Dennis Carlson, Bismarck, N.D., as first vice chairman


•	Dan Schurr, LeClaire, Iowa, as secretary-treasurer


•	Steve Fritel, Rugby, N.D., as second vice chairman


•	Curt Eischens, Minneota, Minn., as assistant secretary-treasurer

Delegates also re-elected Eischens, Schurr, Jon Erickson, Minot, N.D.; Ed Malesich, Dillon, Mont.; Greg Kruger, Eleva, Wis., and C.J. Blew, Castleton, Kan., to three-year terms on the CHS Board.

CHS Inc. (www.chsinc.com) is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States. Diversified in energy, grains and foods, CHS is committed to helping its customers, farmer-owners and other stakeholders grow their businesses through its domestic and global operations. CHS, a Fortune 100 company, supplies energy, crop nutrients, grain marketing services, animal feed, food and food ingredients, along with business solutions including insurance, financial and risk management services. The company operates petroleum refineries/pipelines and manufactures, markets and distributes Cenex^® brand refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products.

This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that are based on management's current expectations and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the potential results discussed in the forward-looking statements. The company undertakes no obligations to publicly revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. For a discussion of additional factors that may materially affect management's estimates and predictions, please view the CHS Inc. annual report filed on Form 10-K for the year ended Aug. 31, 2014, which can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission web site (www.sec.gov) or on the CHS web site www.chsinc.com.

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