The North Dakota Corn Growers Association has hired its new executive director. Lisa Hochhalter is now a staff member for the North Dakota House agriculture committee and has been a law clerk for a Grand Forks legal firm. Hochhalter will receive her law degree this spring. She will work for NDCGA on a part-time basis while preparing for her bar exam and will begin full-time duties August 1. Hochhalter succeeds Dale Ihry, who passed away in January.


