Company: SDSYA
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001163609-25-000013
Chunk: 5

Company: SOUTH DAKOTA SOYBEAN PROCESSORS LLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 5
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NUAL MEETING.

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### PROPOSALS

#### PROPOSAL ONE

#### : ELECTION OF MANAGERS
The first proposal at the 2025 Annual Meeting is the election of three members of the board of managers. Each district will elect ONE manager. The elected managers will serve on the board until the 2028 Annual Meeting (a term of three years). Petition and other forms nominating the following members have been submitted to the Nomination Committee of the board and been approved for presentation to the membership:

| District   |     | Geographic Area by State and County                                                                                        |     | Name(s)          |
| District 1 |     | South Dakota: Brookings, Deuel, Hamlin, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody and Turner               |     | Craig Weber      |
| District 2 |     | Minnesota: Cottonwood, Jackson, Lac qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Rock and Yellow Medicine |     | Gary Goplen      
 Brian Hicks      
 William Louwagie |
| District 3 |     | Minnesota: All other counties                                                                                              
 South Dakota: All other counties                                                                                           
 All Other States                                                                                                           |     | Lewis Bainbridge |

The board has not taken a position on recommending any of the above nominees for election by the members.

#### Information about Nominees
The following table sets forth certain information with respect to the nominees to the board of the Company. The number of capital units beneficially owned by the nominees to the board and existing board members not running for election is set forth below under “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners, Management and Nominees.”

| District |     | Name and Position with                             
 Company, if any, Address.                          |     | Age |     | Board                            
 Member                           
 Since or                         
 Prior                            
 Board                            
 Member                           |     | Occupation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 and                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
 Background                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 1        |     | Craig Weber45202 205th St.Arlington, SD 57212      
 President; Finance/Audit and Governance Committees |     |  58 |     | 2018; also served from 2012-2016 |     | Craig has been a farmer for the past 34 years. He is the vice-president of High Plains Partners, LLC and High Plains Processing, LLC, subsidiaries of the Company, and