Forty Year Yearbook 1966 –2006 - Some useful topic!

Wife: Pam
Married: 1980
Children:
Michael (24)
Megan (21)
Bill Horan
Home Address: Phone Numbers: E-mail
3220 240 th St 515-463-2357(h) horanbro@wccta.net
Rockwell City, IA 50579 515-463-2232(w)
515-570-3551 (c)
William and Joseph Horan; partners in Horan Brothers Ag Enterprises, a 4000 acre
family farm operation based in Calhoun County, Iowa. Horan Brothers is a fourth
generation farming operation which has been involved in specialty crop production and
identity preservation for over 20 years. They have grown many high-value crops over the
years, including waxy corn, tofu soybeans and Nutridense corn for juvenile poultry feed.
Bill and Joe were members of an Iowa biotech trade industry mission, which included
Governor Vilsack, to New Zealand in 2004.
William Horan, Rockwell City, Iowa, serves as COO of Horan BioProduction, LLC. He
has been a full-time farm operator since 1973. He received a BS from South Dakota State
University and attended the Harvard Business School – Agricultural Executive Education
program. He is a director, of the Iowa State University Research Park; director, Truth About
Trade and Technology; and steering committee member, Natural Resource Solutions, LLC, a
non-partisan group dedicated to developing public policy with a goal of US energy use to be 25
percent biomass-based by 2025.
Bill’s past positions include member, National Corn Growers Association Policy Team; director,
National Corn Growers Association; director, US Grains Council; member, Governor of Iowa’s Ag
Value Growth Foundation; and member, Iowa State University Extension Council; member,
DOE/USDA Biomass Technical Advisory Committee. He has served as President of the Calhoun
County (Iowa) Farm Bureau, President of the Rockwell City School Board and President of the
Iowa Corn Growers Association.
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