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Jason Tatge oversees all aspects of Farms Technology’s software development and deployment initiatives including the Dynamic Pricing Platform and Pioneer MarketPoint. The Lenexa based company was founded in 2001 as a way to make the commodity origination process more efficient by offering completely automated marketing tools available to farmers and grain buyers utilizing electronic trading technologies.

DuPont, through its subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International, recently took an equity stake in Farms Technology after the successful MarketPoint pilot project was completed in central Nebraska. This service in now being offered in Iowa and will be made available in Illinois and Indiana as well.

Prior to starting Farms Technology, Jason was a Senior Commodity Trader at The Scoular Company and The Pillsbury Company. He has worked in Minneapolis, Kansas City and Memphis trading various commodities. Jason also launched Farms.com in 1999, with co-founder Ben Zaitz, where he was Director of Online Markets and helped secure $40 million of venture funding.

Jason holds an MBA in Marketing from The Fogelman School of Business and Economics at The University of Memphis and a BA in Financial Economics from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN.