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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Bruce Rastetter |
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| Info | Bruce Rastetter is an Iowa entrepreneur. Bruce was raised on a farm outside of Iowa Falls and went to the University of Iowa, gaining a BA in Political Science. After finishing school at the University of Iowa, Bruce decided to return home to the Iowa Falls area and sought to build his own business. Bruce founded his own small feed management business that eventually also incorporated a building construction business and a swine production business.
In 1994, Bruce merged those three separate businesses – feed management, building construction and swine production into one business enterprise called Heartland Pork Enterprises. Bruce served as Heartland’s CEO until 2004, growing the company to the thirteenth largest pork producer in the United States. During that time, Heartland grew from 45 employees to 550 employees while building $200 million in facilities in three states. During that time, he coordinated and streamlined animal production, genetics and marketing while raising 1,100,000 pigs annually. In 2004, Bruce successfully guided the acquisition of Heartland Pork by Christensen Farms of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. The resulting company became the fourth largest pork producer in the United States, raising over 3,900,000 pigs annually.
In 2003, Bruce founded Hawkeye Renewables. Bruce has served as the CEO of Hawkeye since its inception and has overseen Hawkeye’s growth to become America’s third largest pure-play ethanol company. Hawkeye currently operates two plants and produces over 235 million gallons of ethanol. In addition, Hawkeye is constructing two additional plants that will come online in 2008, boosting production to over 450 million gallons per year.
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