Dusti Gallagher

Dusti Gallagher, who has owned and operated Fritz Consulting, an agricultural marketing consulting company, since 2010, became President/CEO in February 2018. As the founder of Fritz Consulting, Gallagher provided leadership and management services to agricultural companies including organization leadership and management, employee recruitment, staff and board development, strategic and financial planning, and goal initiation and execution. She previously served as the Strategic Lead for Sorghum and Co-Director for Developing Sorghum Doubled Haploid Technology with HPI. Prior to founding Fritz Consulting, Gallagher was the Chief Executive Officer of Kansas Wheat, a producer-led organization. She led the restructuring of the Kansas Wheat Commission and the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. In this capacity, she participated in several national industry committees. Gallagher has also served three years as the Western States Regional Director of the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, developing and carrying out producer outreach and marketing programs across a five-state region. Gallagher began her agricultural career as the wheat analyst for the Foreign Agricultural Service, United States Department of Agriculture. She was responsible for the global wheat situation and prepared the wheat outlook for FAS’s monthly publication covering global trade in grain. Gallagher, a native of Oklahoma, received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University. She currently resides in Wamego, Kansas, with her husband, Paul, and two children, Maya and Nathanael.