Daniel Basse is president of AgResource Company based in Chicago and is an economist who has been in the commodity business since 1979. Raised on a dairy/grain farm in Waukesha, Wis., Daniel has a keen sense of production agriculture. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has since worked with Professional Farmers of America, Brock Associates and the ag research division of GNP Commodities in Chicago. In 1987, Daniel founded AgResource Company to serve the market research needs of the world agricultural community. He holds global conferences on agriculture in Switzerland and Brazil and is vice chairman of the U.S. Farm Foundation.