Dr. Danny Klinfelter passed away on July 24, 2023, in College Station, Texas. He was 76 years old.
In more than 32 years of services at Texas A&M, he considered his greatest achievement to be the founding of The Executive Program for Agriculture Producers (TEPAP).
Klinefelter was an internationally known thought leader in agricultural finance, farm and ranch management, business and personnel management, and risk management. He was a recognized author and sought-out-speaker in addition to an Honors Professor at Texas A&M University, a Regents Fellow and an Extension Economist Emeritus.
In 2009, Top Producer magazine named him one of the 25 most influential people in American agriculture. And in 2013, Top Producer named him one of the 30 innovators who had the biggest impact on agriculture in the past 30 years — and one of seven bankers and economists to have challenged the status quo.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University and his masters and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois.
Klinefelter grew up on his family’s farm in Illinois with his parents, Allen and Aldine, and two brothers, Lynn and Skip.
He was married to his wife Vicki for 58 years. He is also survived by four daughters, four sons-in-law, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
His full obituary is available here.
