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Tanner Ehmke

Lead Economist
CoBank ACB
Tanner Ehmke is a Lead Economist at CoBank's Knowledge Exchange research team that provides market and industry outlooks on sectors affecting the rural economy, including grains, oilseeds, biofuels and farm supply; animal protein; dairy production and processing; specialty crops; and power, energy and water. Tanner's research focus is specialty crops and dairy. Prior to joining CoBank in 2015, Tanner farmed and marketed seed for his family's seed company in western Kansas where his family homesteaded in 1885. He previously was a commodities analyst at AgResource Company in Chicago, a markets reporter for Dow Jones at the Chicago Board of Trade, and an agricultural journalist covering crop production and farm business management. Tanner holds a bachelor's in Agricultural Economics and a master's in Agricultural Business, both from Kansas State University.