TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Agriculture today announced the result of elections for the state’s five grain commodity commissions – corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat in districts Four, Five and Six in the central region of the state.

Stephen Bigge, who grows sorghum in Rooks County, was elected to District Four of the Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission. He is a sixth-generation Rooks County farmer and a member of National Sorghum Producers, Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association, Kansas Farm Bureau, Kansas Livestock Association and Kansas State College of Agriculture Alumni Board.

Bigge was a member of the first class of Leadership Sorghum, sponsored by the United Sorghum Checkoff Program.

Michael McClellan, who grows wheat in Rooks County, was elected to District Four of the Kansas Wheat Commission.

His farming operation has been featured in several no-till farming publications, and he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agriculture economics from Kansas State University.

Commissioners serve three-year terms, which begin April 1.