John Zanker is the President of AgriSource and founded the company in April of 1988.  John graduated from Iowa State University in 1981 after spending the first 18 years of his life on the family farm in Hamburg, Iowa.  John joined the A.E. Staley Mfg. Company after graduation and spent 5 ½ years with company merchandising corn, soybeans, soymeal and corn gluten feed for the firm’s processing plants.  John also gained valuable hedging and merchandising experience while serving as Senior Commodity Broker for Indiana Commodities in Indianapolis.