• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Bruce Rastetter

Summit Agricultural Group

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Bruce Rastetter is the founder and CEO of Summit Agricultural Group, a leading agribusiness and renewable energy firm with operations in North and South America. Rastetter has founded and grown a number of successful companies including Heartland Pork, a leading Midwestern pork production company later acquired by Christensen Farms. He also founded Hawkeye Renewables, which became one of the largest corn-based ethanol producers in the United States. Today, Rastetter is founder and controlling shareholder of FS Bioenergia, a Brazilian based biofuels platform that owns the largest and most sustainable ethanol production plant in South America. In addition, Rastetter is an active philanthropist and advisor on a number of public policy issues. Rastetter was previously appointed by Iowa Governor, now Chinese Ambassador, Branstad to the Iowa Board of Regents where he ultimately served as President.

Sessions With Bruce Rastetter

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 04:40pm - 05:25pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Agriculture & Energy

    Along with fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, transportation, and packaging, biofuels are a major area of intersection between agriculture and energy. Over the past 15 years, biofuels production has increased globally and has become a major part of the energy profile of developed and developing countries. While energy security and farm income support were early pillars of biofuels policy, biofuels as a solution to developing renewable, sustainable, low-carbon sources of energy is a major theme in both commercial and policy organizations considering future biofuels development. What are the geographic differences in areas such as feedstocks and policy? How will technology play a role? What are the critical policy changes that could happen? What role will energy prices play?