Steve L. Baccus became a Class B Director in May 2002 after being named President of the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation. He is also Chairman of the board of directors of Farm Bureau Mutual and a director of Farm Bureau Life, EquiTrust Life, Western Ag and FB BanCorp. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Kansas Weslyan University in Salina, Kansas. In 2004 Baccus was elected to the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation. His family farm in Ottawa County, Kansas produces wheat, milo, soybeans, sunflower and irrigated corn. Baccus earned bachelors and masters degrees in psychology from Washburn University and Chapman College, respectively.

Holdings: 4,820 shares View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
May 20, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	3,353	n/a
Jun 4, 2007	Buy	8	39.52
Nov 4, 2003	Sell	4,000	26.01
Nov 4, 2003	Option Execute	4,000	19.50 - 20.37

Jerry L. Chicoine is the Lead Director of the independent directors, Vice Chairman of the Board, and serves on the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee. He has been named by the Board of Directors as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts." Chicoine retired effective January 1, 2001 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. He had served in those capacities since 1999, and was Pioneer's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since 1997. From 1988 to 1997 he had served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He was named a director of Pioneer Hi-Bred in March 1998. He was named Outstanding CPA in Business and Industry by the Iowa Society of CPA's in 1998. He was a partner in the accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen from 1969 to 1986, and also holds a law degree. He is a member of the board of directors of several non-public companies, including Ruan Holdings, The Weitz Company and Bankers Trust Company N.A. of Phoenix.

Holdings: 38,861 shares View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
May 20, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	2,011	n/a
Apr 28, 2006	Option Execute	4,000	8.75

Robert H. Hanson was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith in New York from 1965 to 1989, since 1972 as a Vice President, specializing in providing corporate finance services to the regulated utilities and telecommunications industries. In 1990 he relocated to Cody, Wyoming, where he was employed by Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. as an Account Executive, and later by D.A. Davidson & Co., as Vice President and Office Manager of that firm's Cody office. In 1993 he joined GST Telecommunications, Inc., initially as Senior Vice President-Corporate Development, and subsequently as Chief Financial Officer, retiring from those positions in 1999. Hanson is a past member of the Wyoming Telecommunications Council and current President of the Boys & Girls Club of Park County, Wyoming. In addition, he is a director and trustee of two national conservation organizations, for which he has the responsibility for financial and investment management. Hanson is a graduate of Yale University. He is chair of the Finance Committee, and has been named by the Board of Directors as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts."

Holdings: 21,874 shares View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
May 20, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	3,353	n/a
Mar 7, 2008	Buy	1,000	27.64 - 27.71
Aug 9, 2007	Buy	1,000	31.16 - 31.21
May 14, 2004	Statement of Ownership	0	n/a

Paul E. Larson is the chair of the Audit Committee. He has been named by the Board of Directors as one of our "Audit Committee financial experts." He retired in 1999 as President of Equitable Life of Iowa and its subsidiary, USG Annuity and Life, after 22 years with the companies. Larson holds both a law degree and a certified public accountant designation. He was named Outstanding CPA in Business and Industry by the Iowa Society of CPA's in 1999, and inducted into the American Institute of CPA's Business and Industry Hall of Fame in 2000. He is a member of the board of directors of non-public companies Wellmark, Inc., GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company and GuideOne Specialty Mutual Insurance Company. He was also a board member of EquiTrust Mutual Funds (which is managed by one of our subsidiaries), where he was chair of the Audit Committee and the committee's financial expert. He resigned from the EquiTrust Mutual Funds board upon election to our Board in 2004.

Holdings: 14,141 shares View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
May 20, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	3,353	n/a
May 11, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	2,000	6.75
Mar 6, 2008	Buy	4,000	27.65 - 28.21

Keith R. Olsen was elected a Class B Director in May 2007. He previously served as a Class B Director from 2002 to 2004. Olsen was elected President of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation in 2002, and has been a member of its board of directors since 1992. He was elected to the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2004. He is also a director of Farm Bureau Life, Farm Bureau Mutual, and Western Ag. In February 2003 he became a director of Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Nebraska. Olsen received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics in 1967, and since then has been raising dryland wheat and corn on 3,000 acres in southwest Nebraska. He is also a producer and marketer of certified wheat seed, and was a self employed tax practitioner for a number of years.

Holdings: 4,353 shares View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
May 20, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	3,353	n/a
May 16, 2007	Statement of Ownership	0	n/a
Aug 20, 2002	Statement of Ownership	0	n/a

John E. Walker is the chair of the Management Development and Compensation Committee. He retired January 1, 1996 from Business Men's Assurance (BMA), Kansas City, Missouri, where he had been the Managing Director of Reinsurance Operations since 1979. He had been a member of the board of directors of BMA for 11 years before his retirement, and a member of its executive committee.

Holdings: 35,189 shares View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
May 20, 2009	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	3,353	n/a
Mar 8, 2006	Option Execute	4,000	8.75