Craig A. Lang is the Chairman of the Board, and chair of the Executive Committee. He has been a director of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation since 1992 and was its Vice President for six years beginning in 1995. He has been a director of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company and Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company since 1993. In December 2001 he was elected President of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and director and President of its subsidiary, Farm Bureau Management Corporation. He was also then named President of Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company and Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (until 2003), a director and president of EquiTrust Life Insurance Company and a director of Western Agricultural Insurance Company. In 2003 Mr. Lang was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He is also a director of FB BanCorp. He served as the Iowa governor's appointed chairman of the Grow Iowa Values Fund, within the Iowa Department of Economic Development, in 2003 and 2006. Mr. Lang has farmed since 1973 in partnership with his father and brother on 1,200 acres near Brooklyn, Iowa where they have a 500 head dairy operation.

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." Mr. 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 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 and The Weitz Company.

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. Mr. Hanson is a member of the Wyoming Telecommunications Council and current Vice Chairman of the Cody Economic Development Council. In addition, he is a director and trustee of two national conservation organizations, for which he has the responsibility of financial and investment management. Mr. 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: 6,910 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
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. Mr. 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 Companyand 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.

James W. Noyce, CPA, FCAS, ASA, FLMI, MAAA, became Chief Executive Officer of FBL and its major subsidiaries effective January 1, 2007, and of Farm Bureau Mutual and its subsidiaries, in February 2007. He had been Chief Financial Officer since January 1996, and Chief Administrative Officer since July 2002. Additionally, from January 2000 to July 2002 he was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the property-casualty companies managed by FBL. He is chair of the CEO/CFO Certification Committee. Mr. Noyce has been employed by FBL and its affiliates since 1985. He is also a director of Berthel Fisher & Company and two of its subsidiaries. Mr. Noyce is vice chair of the Grandview College Board of Trustees and a director of Special Olympics Iowa, United Way of Central Iowa, the Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts of America. In 2007 Mr. Noyce was inducted into the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) Business and Industry Hall of Fame.

Holdings: 50,370 shares     View Transactions

Date	Type	Shares Traded	Price Range
Aug 30, 2004	Disposition (Non Open Market)	150	25.79
Jul 23, 2004	Disposition (Non Open Market)	50	26.52
Mar 10, 2004	Option Execute	6,966	8.75
Mar 8, 2004	Disposition (Non Open Market)	1,000	28.24
Mar 8, 2004	Option Execute	3,228	8.75
Mar 3, 2004	Option Execute	9,040	8.75
Mar 1, 2004	Automatic Sell	9,346	28.38
Mar 1, 2004	Option Execute	9,346	17.97 - 19.50
Feb 25, 2004	Option Execute	2,624	8.75
Feb 24, 2004	Automatic Sell	7,500	28.09
Feb 24, 2004	Option Execute	7,500	15.50 - 17.97
Feb 23, 2004	Automatic Sell	2,500	27.56
Feb 23, 2004	Option Execute	2,500	15.50
Feb 19, 2004	Automatic Sell	300	28.03
Feb 19, 2004	Option Execute	300	15.50
Feb 19, 2004	Option Execute	8,221	8.75
Feb 17, 2004	Automatic Sell	2,500	27.91
Feb 17, 2004	Option Execute	2,500	15.50 - 15.75
Feb 13, 2004	Automatic Sell	2,700	28.10
Feb 13, 2004	Option Execute	2,700	15.75 - 23.00
Feb 12, 2004	Automatic Sell	4,800	27.83 - 28.06
Feb 12, 2004	Option Execute	4,800	18.25
Feb 11, 2004	Automatic Sell	2,500	28.37
Feb 11, 2004	Option Execute	2,500	15.50
Jan 15, 2004	Acquisition (Non Open Market)	7,813	n/a
Jan 7, 2004	Disposition (Non Open Market)	2,317	25.96
Jan 7, 2004	Option Execute	6,875	8.75
Dec 19, 2003	Disposition (Non Open Market)	1,000	25.45
Dec 19, 2003	Option Execute	2,909	8.75
Apr 3, 2003	Disposition (Non Open Market)	510	20.02
Mar 7, 2003	Option Execute	1,000	8.75
Jan 6, 2003	Option Execute	2,317	8.75
Dec 31, 2002	Automatic Sell	3,288	20.00
Dec 31, 2002	Option Execute	3,288	8.75 - 12.00
Dec 10, 2002	Option Execute	1,000	8.75

Kim M. Robak is a partner in the Lincoln, Nebraska law firm of Ruth Mueller Robak LLC. Previously, Ms. Robak was Vice President for External Affairs and Corporation Secretary at the University of Nebraska from 1999 to 2004. Ms. Robak served the State of Nebraska as Lieutenant Governor from 1993 to 1999, as Chief of Staff from 1992 to 1993, and as Legal Counsel from 1991 to 1992. She is a member of the board of directors of Fiserv, Inc. and non-public companies Union Bank & Trust Company and First Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation of New York. Ms. Robak is also a trustee of Doane College, Crete, Nebraska, and a member of the board of directors of the Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities, Lincoln Community Foundation, the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development and the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.

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.