Study Group: Agriculture Experts(?)

Gary Castellaw is the President of Premier Financial Consulting Group, an international firm providing services and consulting. The firm specializes in the industrial and agricultural chemicals, fertilizer, seed, biofuels, and equipment industries. Formerly, Mr. Castellaw was Director of Planning and...

Gary Drimmer is the President of Drimmer and Associates; a commodity, animal nutrition, plant biotechnology, and international business consulting firm. Mr. Drimmer has more than 30 years of international business experience in plant biotechnology, corn and flour milling, soybean processing, animal...

Philip Corzine is Founder and Consultant at AgPage International Consultancy, providing electronic communications, and agricultural business development and economic analysis services to small businesses and organizations. Mr. Corzine also consults with the international investment community, providing...

Joe Victor is Vice President of Market Research at Allendale, one of the largest commodity research advisory firms in Mid-America and one of the brokerage firms that develops its own research. Mr. Victor is responsible for conducting research on grains and livestock in order to provide the worldwide...

David Asbridge is the Business Development Manager and Senior Economist at Doane Advisory Services. Mr. Asbridge has 30 years of experience in analyzing the US and world agricultural & fertilizer situations from the production and consumption side of industries. Prior, he was a Manager of Agri-business...

Rich Nelson is Director of Research at Allendale, one of the largest commodity research and trading firms in Mid-America. Mr. Nelson is in charge of all long term grain and livestock market research for the firm. This research informs and guides their clients who range from Class A farmers to the food...

John Baize is the President of John C. Baize & Associates, an international agricultural trading and policy consulting firm specializing in the oilseeds sector, particularly soybeans and soybean products. Mr. Baize has more than 16 years of experience in providing consultancy services to international...

Kurt Ross is the Agronomy Manager at Western Iowa Cooperative. Kurt began his career in retail agronomy sales with Swiss Valley Farms, where he was the Regional Agronomy Manager. He then became General Manager of the co-ops in Gilman and Ellsworth, Iowa. In 1997, Kurt began to work for Western Iowa...