Benjamin Riggs, Riggs

Benjamin Lyle Riggs (Ben) is a third generation native Arizona cotton farmer and rancher. Attended Chandler High School, University of Arizona, Arizona State University and the Thunderbird School of International Management. Married Anona Despain, also born in Arizona, and have seven children and fifteen grandchildren. Entered Agra-Business while a sophomore in High School and later farmed over two thousand acres of land leased from the Pima Indian Nation with two thousand head of cattle in his feedlot. While at one of the ranches in northern Arizona he was struck with lightning, which drastic...