Eric Peterson is President and Chief Operating Officer of Summit Agricultural Group and is responsible for overall management of the group’s businesses of farm operations, agricultural investment funds, and farm management services.
Eric started with Summit in 2007 and oversaw growth in the farming operation – row crop, cattle production, and swine finishing. In 2010 Summit’s first investment fund was launched, dedicated to Midwestern farm land, leading to the creation of additional funds investing in livestock facilities, farmland in Brazil, and that country’s first modern corn ethanol plant.
In 2011 Governor Branstad appointed him to the Iowa Finance Authority, the state’s housing and finance agency. He currently serves on the Iowa State University College of Agriculture Advisory Board and in 2015, he was named a 40 under 40 by Vance Publishing, publisher of Farm Journal. Eric was raised on his family’s farm near Fargo, North Dakota. He is a graduate of Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Business.