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Mike Downes
Founding Partner
Mike started as a
runner, then worked as a margin clerk, broker,
member and floor trader at the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange. He served as
Executive Vice President and National
Marketing Director of Heinold
Commodities, Inc., with direct supervisory
responsibility for more
than one hundred branch offices nationwide.
He owned a 300
cow dairy farm in Wisconsin. His personal
dairy experience gives Mike an understanding
of the dairy markets that few, if any, brokers
share. He is a member of the Professional
Dairy Producers of Wisconsin and a member and
past President of the Chicago Farmers Club.
The Wisconsin Association of County
Agricultural Agents also awarded Mike the 1998
Friend of the County Agent Award.
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