Cheri De Jong serves as co-owner and chief financial officer for AgriVision Farm Management — a company that oversees management for 27 family owned and operated agricultural businesses. Cheri is also the chief financial officer and co-owner for Natural Prairie Dairy, one of the largest, family-operated organic dairy farms in the U.S. based in Hartley, Texas. Natural Prairie Dairy’s mission is to deliver best-in-class organic milk from their family to yours. Cheri and her husband Donald have also recently launched the De Jong Foundation, an organization whose mission is to empower people in agriculture worldwide.
Cheri is also the incoming chairman of the board of directors forthe National Panhellenic Conference that serves as the premier advocacy and support organization for the advancement of the sorority experience consisting of 26 inter/national women’s sororities. She has also served her own sorority, Sigma Kappa, in many leadership roles over the years including as national president.
She also serves on the board of directors for the Farm Foundation —an organization consisting of leaders in agriculture across the country. Cheri stays active in the local community as a board member and current treasurer/investment chairman for the Amarillo Area Foundation, Dalhart Economic Development Board, Dalhart Education Foundation, and the Hartley County Appraisal District. She is also active as a eucharistic minister and on the finance council for St. Anthony’s Catholic Church.
Cheri majored in agribusiness management at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California and has an MBA from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. She lives in Dalhart, Texas with her husband and business partner Donald De Jong and has three grown daughters Ashley, Allison and Alexandra.