Tom Buis is a former president of the American National Farmers Union (NFU) and was CEO of Growth Energy until 2015.
Before moving to NFU, Buis was the Senior Agriculture Policy Advisor for Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.).
[1] Tom Buis grew up on the family farm with this brothers Mike and Jeff in Putnam and Morgan Counties, West Central Indiana.
He worked for nearly five years as senior agricultural policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D).
[4] Additionally, Buis' name appeared frequently on many lists of potential candidates to be in President Obama's cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture, despite being known primarily as a lobbyist.