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Joe is a management advisor and business writer with over thirty years experience in agribusiness. He is a graduate of Michigan State and Claremont Graduate University in Calif. At Claremont he studied under Peter Drucker, recognized as the father of modern management, who was instrumental in forming Joe’s knowledge of management as a discipline. This Business Management blog draws on Joe’s management experiences in putting these principles to work. He grew up on a Michigan grain farm still operated by his family and lives in Minnesota with his wife Kathy.

Jeanne Bernick, Top Producer Editor, writes about issues related to agriculture. Jeanne grew up on a beef cattle operation in Southwest Missouri and now writes from the heart of corn country in Eastern Iowa.

Tanner Ehmke is the content manager for AgWeb.com. He is orignially from western Kansas where his family farms wheat, rye, triticale and milo. Prior to joining AgWeb, he was a news reporter for Dow Jones at the Chicago Board of Trade and a commodities analyst with AgResource Company in Chicago.

Jamie Wasemiller is a senior market analyst for Gulke Group and has been with the firm since 2005. In addition to his work with the Gulke Group he also assists Jerry Gulke on his Illinois farmland. In addition to market analysis, one of Jamie’s focuses within Gulke Group is the combination of risk management with crop insurance. As a licensed crop insurance agent and owner of Wasemiller Insurance Company, he works closely with farmers to ensure that they fully understand and correctly implement the right crop insurance policy and risk management tools to create effective grain marketing plans. Jamie provides both marketing and insurance insight to the industry and routinely speaks throughout the country. In 2010 he worked with the University of Delaware and Farm Journal to create the 21st Century Grain Marketing Primer.

Mike Adams was raised in a small farming community in central Illinois and grew up working on a grain and livestock farm. He served west-central Illinois on WLDS radio in Jacksonville, for 27 years. Adams served in several capacities as Disc Jockey, Sports Announcer and Farm Director. Mike has covered state and national agricultural events in 11 countries, met Pope John Paul II and five U.S. presidents. Mike took over as host of the nationally syndicated talk show, AgriTalk, in July of 2001. He facilitates a discussion about issues and ideas important to rural America, traveling over 100 days a year for remote broadcasts across the country. Adams is a voting member and past-president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB). Adams has received numerous awards from agriculture and civic organizations. Adams served 20 years as a certified lay speaker including 16 years as a lay pastor for a rural Illinois United Methodist church. Mike and his wife Patty have two grown children and currently reside in Jacksonville, Ill.