Don Roose is president of U.S. Commodities in West Des Moines and is often a source for grain market information in Iowa Farmer Today. Roose grew up on grain and livestock farms in both Iowa and Illinois. He started school in Clarksville, Iowa, but later moved across the Mississippi to Hanover, Illinois. The farms both had grain and livestock, including dairy. He went to Iowa State University, where he started out in pre-veterinary science but ended up majoring in agricultural business.
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