It has nothing to do with whether he supported me," Branstad said. It was the summer of 2009. His friend was killed. He is always ready for a good fight," said Craig Lang, his friend, fellow agribusinessman and former regents president. Justin Kirchhoff President, Summit Ag Investors. Companies planning carbon-sequestration pipelines across the Midwest "If people don't try to start new businesses and do new things and there is risk, we are never going to progress as a society and an economic system that is better for everyone. Ultimately, the university backed away from assisting with the plan, but only after an uproar. Through all that, Rastetter learned how to fight in the public arena, get out front with his views and influence politicians who help set the rules. And I think we need principled leaders, which is one of the reasons I encouraged Branstad to run again. By the time it got its 1994 patent Stine had become the largest private seed company in the country, the bulk of its revenues still coming from royalties from licensing its award-winning soybean genetics. Public policy. And when we were after change in policy, he was a tiger.". "I'd raise half the equity capital, and they would build the plant in Iowa Falls," he said. Hes not afraid to speak his mind. Rastetter counters that students should be happy. By the mid-1970s, under a new company called Midwest Oilseeds, Stine was operating the most widely used soybean genetics company in the U.S., licensing the robust seeds it bred for royalties. ", Sweeney lined him up with friends for dates, she said, but "I can see him not taking the time to iron out a relationship.". Asked about the potential perception that he failed at two industries and still came out ahead, he scoffs. Hes loathed by liberal community activists who believe hes leveraged his money into political power for personal gain. Meet Bruce Rastetter, the man behind the Iowa Agriculture Summit, which is drawing 11 presidential hopefuls to Iowa March 7. But he saw his hard-charging brother, then 39, change after the accident, ease up on the little things. While he wants to broaden the discussion, theres no doubt the candidates will still be pressed on where they stand on the Renewable Fuel Standard. Monitor your investments 24 hours a day, around the clock from around the globe. Two of his company's facilities, Shell Rock and Menlo, were sold in 2010 to Koch Industries. podcast episodes, Brokers, Bagmen, & Moles podcast episodes, Connections with BCD Travel podcast episodes, Cyber Security & Cloud Podcast podcast episodes, Coinbase Institutional Market Call podcast episodes, South Side Rules: A Shameless Podcast podcast episodes. "I kept thinking, there's got to be somebody else," Branstad said. Bruce Rastetter, the "philanthropist", has used money effectively to wield power in politics and the public realm. He needed to diversify. Branstad worked the phones with several of the GOP presidential candidates. This story appears in the April 13, 2014 issue of Forbes. Tuition has been frozen for three years straight. Bruce Rastetter, chief executive officer of Summit Agricultural Group, based in north-central Iowa, said this week his ethanol plant in Mato Grosso, Brazil's largest agricultural region, is. Jimmy Buffett is an American singer-songwriter, author, and businessman who was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
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