Dana is in his second term on the Oregon Wheat Commission starting in 2019, after 8 years on the Oregon Wheat Growers League board, serving as president in 2017. He has served on several other boards in other commodities. His family first settled in Malheur County Oregon in 1869, making him 5th generation to work the land in Eastern Oregon. His farm has consisted of growing various crops all under irrigation, including onions, potatoes, sugar beets, dry bean seed, hay, corn, and several different kinds of small seeds, and of course wheat. He and his wife Kathy who works alongside him on the farm, have been married for 39 years, they have five grown children and seven grandchildren.