David Hughes

David Hughes has worked as a farm manager and consultant in Argentina. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Animal Science (1983) at the Universidad Católica Argentina and later obtained a Master of Science degree in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M (1987). He has attended an executive course in Agribusiness at the Universidad de San Andres (2006) in Argentina, and for the past four years has been a regular attendee at the Harvard Agribusiness Seminar in Boston (2007/2010). David is a member of AAPEX (Association of Agricultural Production Executives), a farmer's group based out of Texas A&M University. David is an active member of AREA, an Argentinian farmers' group that works on benchmarking, testing new technology, and improving the ag business.

He is currently a partner and President of TraulenCo S.A., a farm management and consulting business. It provides accounting, tax accounting, managerial accounting services as well as management services. TraulenCo oversees many large farm and ranch businesses in Argentina. David is also a partner of AgManagement Group which provides consulting services for foreign investors interested in investing in Argentina and Uruguay.

David is a founding member and current President of ArgenTrigo, the argentine wheat chain association, where the representatives of research, input companies, farmers, flour mills, exporters, brokers, Futures markets, and other related services work on a long-term strategy for the industry.