Zimmerman named senior beef analyst at RaboResearch
Rabobank has tapped veteran beef industry research analyst and economist Lance Zimmerman to join its RaboResearch Food and Agribusiness team in North America. Zimmerman has served the animal protein industry for 18 years, gaining recognition regionally and globally for his forward-looking thought leadership.
Rabobank’s RaboResearch F&A group is a global team of more than 75 analysts who monitor and evaluate global market events that affect food and agriculture worldwide. Zimmerman will join more than 20 analysts based in North America who are internationally respected experts in sectors ranging from animal protein to produce, farm inputs to consumer foods. The team collects key insights into commodity markets; conducts in-depth analysis of the factors that drive sector success or failure; and examine megatrends that ultimately influence clients’ business strategies.
Zimmerman joins Rabobank after nearly 12 years at CattleFax. Growing up in a farming and ranching family and serving as a Kansas FFA State officer he has served as the chairperson of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Young Producer’s Council and was selected as the National Cattlemen’s Foundation and Chicago Mercantile Exchange Beef Industry Scholar in 2003.
Zimmerman has a bachelor’s in agriculture and master’s in agricultural economics from Kansas State University.
