Dana Peterson
National Association of Wheat Growers CEO Dana Peterson left the organization on Friday.

Peterson “voluntarily resigned due to personal circumstances, effective Friday, Feb. 8, 2013,” NAWG President Erik Younggren, a Minnesota farmer, said in a news release today.

In her resignation letter, Peterson called working with the NAWG staff, board and state staff “one of my life’s greatest pleasures,” Younggren said, and his statement thanked her for her “tireless, passionate work.”

Younggren said the association has formed a committee to search for a new CEO, and that he will fill that role in the interim.

Peterson became CEO of NAWG in 2010 after working for Kansas Wheat.