About Us - ruralcan.org

President
Katie is a 4th generation rancher. She was born and raised here in Phillips County, left for 4 years to receive her college education and ended up back in Phillips County where she married her husband of now 10 years and had 3 beautiful children that she hopes will be the 5th generation on her family ranch. Ted and Katie operate a ranch in PC together for the past 10 years and love being able to work with their family each and every day. Katie and Ted both volunteer their time for RCAN . Katie also volunteers at her children's school and PC Cattlewomen's. Katie believes in helping keep our local agriculture in production and wants to make sure her children have the option to grow up on the family ranch doing what they all love. Katie says " I dedicate my time to RCAN because I believe in our mission in helping keep working agricultural lands in production and i believe we need to be advocates for the next generation."

Vice president
Jolynn and her husband, Charlie, both live in Malta. Charlie is originally from Malta, but lived in Havre for 20 years working on farms and ranches. The Messerly’s moved their family to Malta 10 years ago. Charlie works for a large Non-profit managing a cattle ranch. Jolynn owns and operates a local small business, Northern prairie designs. Together, Charlie and Jolynn, have four beautiful daughters. as a business, jolynn understands that rural businesses rely on the success and resiliency of our agricultral neighbors. She hopes rcan can help keep family ranching sustainable so we can all thrive together.

treasurer
Sally resides just on the outskirts of Malta with her husband Ken, and their three children. While Ken runs the family ranch, Sally works full time for WIPFLI as a Certified Public Accountant. Besides being a working mother, Sally volunteers her time to other nonprofit organizations in our area such as Phillips County Cattlewomen’s. Both Sally and her husband helped with our previous Hi-Line Heritage fundraiser and are both currently active in the growth of RCAN. Sally hopes RCAN can work to find options for transitioning landowners to pass agricultural lands onto the younger generation of producers who have passion for continuing in the industry. She states “I want to keep our great community alive!’.

Secretary
Delsi is a Phillips County native and resides outside of Malta with her husband Eric, and their two children. Her family, and kids especially, are extremely active in the family ranching business. Delsi currently works at Milk River Veterinary office, and stays active in our community while volunteering her time through her children’s 4-H group. Delsi also helped make our recent Hi-Line Heritage Fundraiser a huge success by volunteering countless hours. RCAN is proud to announce they will be utilizing Delsi’s time and skills as she serves as our Secretary on our Board of Directors. Delsi hopes that through our work, RCAN can work towards protecting the ranching communities way of life for our younger generations. She wants to be able to assist them in continuing on the family business if that is what they are passionate about and to keep our community thriving.

BOARD MEMBER
MEGAN IS A 4TH GENERATION MONTANA RANCHER. SHE LIVES NORTH OF MALTA AND RANCHES WITH HER HUSBAND, DUSTIN, AND THREE BOYS. SHE WISHES TO KEEP MONTANA AGRICULTURE THRIVING AND RANCHING AND AVAILABLE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. SHE ALSO WISHES TO BETTER CONNECT PRODUCERS AND CONSUMERS.
HER PASSION FOR RANCHING AND WANTING TO MAKE CATTLE PRODUCTION A PROFITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY IS WHAT HAS LEAD HER HERE. WANTING TO MAKE SURE MONTANA AND U.S. BEEF RECEIVE THE RECOGNITION AND PROFIT THEY SO DESERVE. SHE IS EXCITED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT OTHER AREAS OF AGRICULTURE AND CONNECTING THIS FANTASTIC COMMUNITY WITH THE DEEP ROOTS OF AGRICULTURE.

Board Member
Jade was born and raised locally. Graduated from Dodson High School and married Kyle Salveson in 1996 with a background in agriculture their entire lives. Jade and Kyle have been ranching on the Veseth ranch for 17 years all while raising four kids, which are all actively involved on the ranch and helping with bums and milk cows. Jade enjoys drawing and being outside as much as possible. Jade says she enjoys being involved with RCAN and what it stands for, for our agricultural community.

Thanks for giving us your spare time Jade and we can't wait to see what great ideas you can bring to the table.enging times.