Dan Hanrahan is a fifth-generation cow-calf producer in an area known as Irish Settlement, near Cumming, Iowa. The farm is in northeast Madison County, where its hills are best suited for cow-calf herds. It’s also home to many good people that the Hanrahan family is fortunate to have as neighbors and friends.

Hanrahan has served on the Beef Promotion Operating Committee, the Evaluation Committee, and co-chaired the Promotion Committee. He is the past chair of the Iowa Beef Industry Council and has been involved with Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association.

It was hard to get Hanrahan off the farm until he was about 35, when he became more engaged in the industry. That engagement created immense gratitude for the opportunities and relationships that followed.

Hanrahan’s late father, Richard, was instrumental in helping him take ahold of those opportunities, and his family still supports him in those efforts today. In 2016, Hanrahan met Shannon Meyer. Shannon has three grown children, Jordan, Jake and Shae.