Cliff Ganschow served as Chairman and President of Top Farmers of
America Association for 17 years. Mr. Ganschow was an organizer of the
Top Farmers of America Association in 1965, the first and largest
organization of leading farm operators in the U.S. He also was a
founder of Farm Futures (http://farmfutures.com/), the industry's first
risk management publication, which is still one of the industry's
leading business magazines nearly three decades later.
Mr. Cliff Ganschow was Chairman of Doane Farm Management Company, which during
his tenure in the 1980's managed the world's largest farmland equity
portfolio. He was Chairman of Doane-Western Company, one of the
industry's largest farm real estate and mortgage companies, which
managed mortgage portfolios for Aetna, CIGNA and Mutual of New York.
He served for 15 years as Chairman of Market Communications, Inc., a
leading publisher and market consulting firm, which provided services
for a broad spectrum of multi-national food and agriculture clients.
Additionally, during the 1980's Mr. Cliff Ganschow was a Director of AgriData
Resources, Inc., a pioneering electronic information service which
ultimately included IBM as a stockholder and later went public.
Collectively, these print and electronic publishing entities comprised
one of the largest communications organizations in agriculture.
Today, Mr. Cliff Ganschow is focused on leading advancements in the
agricultural data analytics and institutional farmland investment
fields. He was raised on a Midwest farm and is an honors graduate of
Iowa State University with majors in Agronomy and Agricultural
Journalism.
Cliff Ganschow can be followed on Twitter at @cliffganschow or via his blog at www.cliffganschow.org.
