Dee Vaughan

Born and raised near Plainview, Dee Vaughan continues a family tradition on his farm near Dumas, where he and his wife Terri produce corn, cotton, sorghum seed, and wheat.

Since 1989, he has been a proactive supporter of Texas and U.S. agriculture, currently serving as a director of the Corn Producers Association of Texas, Texas Corn Producers Board, and Southwest Council of Agribusiness. Vaughan serves on the advisory committees of the Texas Ag Forum at the Texas A&M Ag and Food Policy Center, and the Southern Risk Management Education Center at the University of Arkansas. He has worked extensively on policy and regulatory issues pertaining to agriculture in the areas of farm policy, energy, transportation, and trade. He served as a corn industry representative to the Doha round of World Trade Organization negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, and to the WTO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. He attended Texas Tech, studying agricultural economics.