Scott Cordes is president of Country Hedging, Inc., the full-service commodity brokerage subsidiary of CHS Inc. Country Hedging provides risk management/marketing programs to producers and commercial businesses through more than 60 branch offices across the Eastern Corn Belt, Midwest and Pacific Northwest.

Scott has spent nearly 20 years in the grain business, including five with CHS Milling in wheat procurement. He was appointed to his current position in 2000. Scott began his career with Continental Grain, worldwide trading company of agricultural commodities, after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota. He is a native of Minnesota and grew up on a dairy/crop farm 60 miles south of St. Paul. He is currently a member of the National Grain and Feed Association.

Scott currently holds the Futures Commission Merchants seat on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange Board of Directors. He also serves on the board of directors of the National Futures Association, the premier provider of regulatory programs that safeguard the integrity of the derivatives markets.