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About Us
Tim Gieseke is the founder and president of Ag Resource Strategies, LLC. The company was designed as a vehicle to assist in the development of an outcome-based resource management process for agriculture, agribusiness, and agri-industry as well as to align these activities with the governmental and non-profit organizations that provide the necessary support for effective resource management to occur.
Tim relied on his experience as a farmer, soil & water conservation district staff, policy analyst work related to conservation title of the 2002 and 2008 Farm Bills and his studies obtaining a master’s degree in environmental sciences to develop a comprehensive and effective approach in integrated resource management.
In these professions, Tim has provided leadership that included serving on state, regional and national positions for the conservation district associations and was awarded the North Central Region NACD Conservation District Employee Award in 2004. He has participated in numerous state efforts that included the state’s Impaired Waters Stakeholders Group, NRCS State Technical Committee, advisor to the Board of Water & Soil Resources and the Environmental Quality Board Water Resources Committee and a member of the Minnesota Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Group serving on the Ag, Forestry and Waste technical work group.
He currently serves on the Solutions for the Land Dialogue, a national effort funded by the United Nations Foundation to unify agriculture, forestry and ecosystem service objectives. He released, EcoCommerce 101: Adding an ecological dimension to the economy, a book that describes in concept and detail how the agro-ecological system and the agro-economic system can be integrated.
Tim grew up on his parent's dairy and crop farm and he and his wife Jenny have taken the opportunity to return to the farm and to farming. Their three boys are the 5th generation of the family to be on the farm.
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