Reid Christopherson of Garretson, South Dakota, is one of the four 2025 SDSU Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community Award winners. The SDSU Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community Awards recognize leaders in agriculture who have influenced their communities, state and nation. I enjoyed wonderful careers in military service, as a livestock nutritionist, executive director of the South Dakota Wheat Commission and now lay ministry. Reid Christopherson continues to work part-time as a rural ambassador for the South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Reid Christopherson of Garretson, South Dakota, is one of the four 2025 SDSU Eminent Leaders in Agriculture, Family and Community Award winners.