2025 Director Candidate
John Patrick Knopf
Age: 64
Business address: 2916 Cooley Road, Canandaigua, NY 14424
Served by the Geneva Office
Business Experience (past 5 years): Senior member and majority owner of Fa-Ba Farms, LLC, a dairy farm. Together with non-family partner and planned successor, Robert DiCarlo, John develops business and capital allocation strategies. John’s responsibilities include oversight of feeding, forage crop planning and production, manure and CAFO compliance, and land and equipment maintenance.
Farm Credit/Community Involvement: John is current Farm Credit East Board Chair. Previously, he served as the vice chair and Audit Committee Chair. Additionally, John is a former nominating committee member for Farm Credit of Western New York and CoBank.
Business Interests/Affiliations: Fa-Ba Farms, LLC – majority owner/senior member – dairy farm; Knopf Real Estate Partners – partner – land holding company
Family members who transact business with Farm Credit East: Spouse, children, parent, sibling and sibling-in-law
Read a letter from John to membership
Business address: 2916 Cooley Road, Canandaigua, NY 14424
Served by the Geneva Office
Business Experience (past 5 years): Senior member and majority owner of Fa-Ba Farms, LLC, a dairy farm. Together with non-family partner and planned successor, Robert DiCarlo, John develops business and capital allocation strategies. John’s responsibilities include oversight of feeding, forage crop planning and production, manure and CAFO compliance, and land and equipment maintenance.
Farm Credit/Community Involvement: John is current Farm Credit East Board Chair. Previously, he served as the vice chair and Audit Committee Chair. Additionally, John is a former nominating committee member for Farm Credit of Western New York and CoBank.
Business Interests/Affiliations: Fa-Ba Farms, LLC – majority owner/senior member – dairy farm; Knopf Real Estate Partners – partner – land holding company
Family members who transact business with Farm Credit East: Spouse, children, parent, sibling and sibling-in-law