Speakers
Danny
Klinefelter
Professor and Extension Economist at Texas A&M University, specializing
in agricultural finance and management development. He is the director of
The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers (TEPAP), co-director of
the Texas A&M Family and Owner-Managed Business Program, and codirector
of the Texas A&M:Texas Tech Agricultural Lending School. In addition,
he serves as the Executive Secretary for the Association of Agricultural
Production Executives (AAPEX). He is also coordinator of the Planning the
Return to the Farm Program and the Women in Agriculture Business Management
Program. He is a member of the board of Ag Texas Farm Credit Services and
Texas Enterprise Bank.
Danny received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics
from the University of Illinois in 1979, where he was a National
Science Foundation Research Fellow.Prior to his graduate work, he spent
five years in commercial lending, credit analysis, and farm management
with the Marine Bank of Springfield, Illinois. In addition to his
Ph.D., he also received his M.S. from the University of Illinois in 1971.
He graduated summa cum laude from Southern Illinois University with a B.S.
in 1969.
Prior to returning to Texas A&M, he was Vice President and Coordinator of Field Operations
for the Farm Credit Capital Corporation in the Fifth Farm Credit District.
He had previously served as Director of Marketing, Financially Related Services
and Training and Development for the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank (FICB)
of Jackson. Before his employment at the FICB in June of 1982, he had been
an assistant professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M. He has
been involved in graduate and undergraduate teaching and research and serves
as the coordinator of the Masters of Agricultural Banking program. He has
three times been selected as the outstanding teacher in the Department of
Agricultural Economics. He is a member of the National Farm Financial Standards
Council and has served on the faculties of the American Bankers Association’s
Graduate School of Agricultural Finance and Banking, the Graduate School
of Banking at Boulder, Colorado, the Ferguson Agri-Management Institute,
and the Federal Reserve Board of Governor’s Senior Lending Seminar.
He also served as the Executive Director of Tenth District Federation of
Production Credit Associations from 1993-96.
He is a member of the American
Agricultural Economics Association, the International Association
of Agribusiness Management, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta and Gamma Sigma Delta.
He received the American Agricultural Economics Association’s Quality of Published
Communication Award in 1987, the Texas Agricultural Extension Service’s
Superior Service Award in both 1988 and 1992, the Vice Chancellors’ Award
in Excellence in 1997 and 2001, and the Texas A&M University Association
of Former Students Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 1998 and 2002.
He is listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, Who’s
Who in the American South and Southwest, and Who’s Who in the World.
In addition to his academic and banking experience, Danny has authored
or co-authored numerous professional articles and publications. He is also
co-author of seven books: Agricultural Financial Reporting and
Analysis, Coordinated Financial Statements for Agriculture, Financial Decisions:
A Survival Handbook for Farmers (Agri Finance Publications), Farm Investment
and Financial Analysis (Prentice-Hall), Agriculture in the 21st
Century, Modern Farm Management, and Planning and Positioning Your Business
(Dupont).
He grew up on a grain and livestock farm in central Illinois and
is President of the family farm corporation. Danny and his wife
currently live in the country outside of Bryan, Texas.
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