Ray Grabanski

417 38th Street, S.W.

Suite A

Fargo,  North Dakota  58103

USA

Phone: 800/450-1404

E-mail: rlg@progressiveag.com

URL: http://www.progressiveag.com

Ray Grabanski is President and the Principal Owner of Progressive Ag, a firm specializing in helping farmers prosper by taking calculated risks, and passing on risk to others via crop insurance, cash marketing positions, and futures/options hedging accounts when the limited reward is no longer worth the risk.

Their marketing firm focuses on the timing of this risk transfer, and coordinating those efforts with the highly subsidized, but rigid multi-peril crop insurance program.

Pro Ag has been highly successful in this venture, rated the top marketing firm in the US by the USDA sponsored AGMAS Program, which has placed ProAg consistently above all other US marketing firms for corn/soybeans for three straight years.

Ray designed the export, yield, and price computer models that have been instrumental in making ProAg the premiere marketing firm in the US, and is the lead analyst responsible for making market decisions.

Pro Ag Systems, the crop insurance arm, is perhaps the largest and fastest growing independent insurance agency in the Northern Plains, largely due to the innovative methods Grabanski has used to coordinate crop insurance and marketing into a comprehensive risk management program.

Grabanski has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Ag Economics from North Dakota State and Iowa State University, has worked as a Farm Management Specialist with the NDSU Extension Service in the early 90s, a farm management consultant, and is a recognized industry leader in risk management methods. Ray celebrated 19 years of marriage to his wife Joan in 2006, and they live near Kindred, ND with their two children, Shelby and Bryce.

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