 And Ville Platt farmer Richard Fontenot has been elected the 13th president of the Louisiana Farm Bureau. Fontenot, a rice, soybean, and crawfish farmer, was elected Sunday at the organization's 102nd convention. He says the honor is humbling. To have the support we had and for them to elect me today to do and stand for and represent what I love and what I cherish and four generations into what we do is an absence of words.