About Us

Pete Loewen is the founder and owner of Loewen and Associates. He grew up on his family’s grain production and commercial cattle feeding operation in western Kansas, graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Animal Sciences and Industry and jumped right into the ag brokerage/analysis business. Pete has a wealth of experience in commodity brokerage and price risk management consulting. Grain and livestock futures market and fundamental analysis is Pete’s lifelong profession. Prior to starting Loewen and Associates, Pete was a partner and member of the board of directors for a professional agricultural risk management firm specializing in commodity futures and options brokerage. Pete is a licensed broker and grain and livestock analyst. Married with two sons, Pete’s passions are hunting, fishing and watching his kids grow up.

Tim Strunk has been involved in agriculture his entire life and made the move to full-time ag market analysis and brokerage in June of 2005. Tim’s education included his degree from Kansas State University in Marketing and Agri-business and he has been a licensed commodity broker since June of 2005. Tim has a strong agricultural background and is a valuable addition to the commodity brokerage and risk management segments of our business. Tim’s true specialty is grain market analysis, but he’s highly competent on the cattle end as well. When not at work, Tim can most likely be found in the field or at the lake, as hunting and fishing are his favorite activities.

Matt Hines rejoined Loewen and Associates in August 2007. Matt graduated from Kansas State University with a dual degree in Agricultural Economics and Milling Science & Management. After graduating, he began his career as a grain merchandiser for ADM/Growmark on the Illinois River in Beardstown, Illinois. Matt then moved back to Kansas and joined 21st Century Grain Processing Cooperative as a grain merchandiser in 2001. We say he “rejoined” Loewen and Associates because from 2004 to 2005 he was also with Pete Loewen as a licensed broker, commercial grain consultant and grain analyst. Matt is currently the grain merchandiser for Farmers Union Coop in St Marys, Kansas. However, he also works with producer consulting clients and commodity brokerage clients through Loewen and Associates, targeting his trade area around the Kaw River valley. Matt resides in Circleville with his wife and daughter.

Doug Biswell is a native to the Kaw River Valley, having grown up in St Marys, Kansas. Doug graduated from Kansas State University in May of 1989 with a Degree in Business Administration. He started his business career as a loan officer for a local credit union and then moved into agriculture, working as the grain merchandiser for the Farmers Union Coop in St Marys. Doug has been a licensed commodity futures and options broker since 1998. He has held the merchandiser position for several Kansas Coops and spent five years as a grain originator for Cargill in Topeka. He currently holds the grain merchandiser position at the Farmers Cooperative Association in Manhattan, Kansas.

Doug joined the Loewen and Associates team in March 2009 as a risk management consultant and broker, while still maintaining his position with the Coop. Doug is a valuable addition to the Loewen team because of his cash market knowledge and risk management skills. His philosophy is to strive to get to know as much about each individual customer’s operation as possible, to better help those producers manage their price risk. He, his wife and four children reside between Rossville and Silver Lake.