Mike provides weekly agricultural, phosphate and potash analysis for Elevar Market Analytics and collaborates with Elevar Resources on special agricultural and fertilizer projects. Before joining the Elevar team, Mike’s career spanned more than 30 years with The Mosaic Company and Cargill Crop Nutrition.​ At both Cargill and Mosaic, Mike was responsible for conducting short term market analysis that was used to help make day-to-day operating and marketing decisions as well as long term strategic analysis that was used to identify growth and divestiture opportunities. He conducted regular strategy reviews with senior management and collaborated with leading consultants to do deep-dive strategic analyses every four to five years during his tenure. Mike was deeply involved in key projects including several phosphate acquisitions, the development of the greenfield Saskferco project, and the formation of The Mosaic Company. Mike earned Master of Science and PhD degrees in economics from Iowa State University and taught economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN prior to starting his career at Cargill.