For more than 70 years, BRANDT has been helping growers become more profitable. The company’s straightforward approach to doing business worked in 1953 when Glen Brandt and his sister, Evelyn Brandt Thomas, founded the company, and it works today. Their belief in innovation, honesty and first-class customer service was a help to local farmers, many of whom were their neighbors, in their hometown of Pleasant Plains, Illinois. That same philosophy, first learned on the family farm, continues today...
Nov 03, 2024•53 min
Asmus Farm Supply was founded in 1960, where Harvey Asmus introduced a new way to farm to the area. It certainly wasn’t adopted by the masses, but over time he persisted and Asmus Farm Supply grew into what it is today. Today, they are still a family owned and operated business. Husband and Wife, Harlan and Amy Asmus, along with their family continue to grow the business without losing their touch of family in leading a business. Currently, Asmus Farm Supply has five company owned locations incl...
Oct 15, 2024•50 min
Get more out of your cattle business! Stop making and losing the same $100 on a calf. BALANCE4WARD is cattle feeding management company passionate about building a better beef supply chain, which creates opportunities for mid-market cattlemen who want to get more out of their business. The post BALANCE4WARD – Real Secrets to Success in the Cattle Feeding Industry appeared first on AgSwag ....
Sep 01, 2024•53 min
Bid on Beef is the vision of Chris Earl, owner of Reverse Rocking R Ranch and CK6 Consulting in New Mexico. Working with beef cattle producers across the nation, CK6 Consulting has conducted $150 million in sales through price discovery in auctions, and now the team is taking that same concept directly to the consumer. Bid On Beef is an online auction platform connecting American cattle ranchers to American families through premium American raised angus and wagyu beef. You choose the ranch. You ...
Aug 11, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Howlett Farms is a 5th generation family owned agricultural business that started in 1880 with two dairy cows and 13 acres of land. Today the Howlett family farms over 3,700 acres and have over 50 employees. Besides farming… Howlett Farms also operates seven grain handling facilities that handle over +20 million bushels of grain annually, manage two feed manufacturing locations, run a fleet of over 25 trucks, and oversee a crop insurance business. The post Howlett Farms – Started with 13 Acres, ...
Jul 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Quality Ag Service was founded in 1995 to provide the best service available for custom applied chemical and fertilizer needs of growers in South Central Iowa. The business expanded into a full service retail operation with locations opening in Albia, IA in 1999; Melrose, IA in 2000; and Agency, IA in 2014. Quality Ag Service offers everything from crop protection products, dry & liquid fertilizer, custom seed treatment, custom application, soil testing, grid mapping, and seed from companies...
Jul 05, 2024•53 min
Foote Cattle Company started in 1985 by Bob Foote, who has owned and operated the ever-growing operation till he recently passed away in 2022. Today, Scott, Brad, and Greg Foote continue their father’s legacy of raising quality beef. Foote Cattle Company includes multiple feedyards, farms, a bank, and a wide range of other investments. Feedyards include Hoxie Feedyard, Imperial Beef, Lane County Feeders, Decatur Family Beef, and Pioneer Feedyard, which are all located in Western Kansas and South...
Sep 09, 2023•54 min
Merschman Seeds was founded in 1954 by Bill and Bernice Merschman and is an independent, family-owned seed company from West Point, Iowa selling soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa, as well as distributing Stine® Corn throughout Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Indiana, Minnesota, and Kentucky. Generations of farmers have trusted Merschman Seeds because they put the farmer’s yield and profitability at the forefont of their minds. This style of mindset and management drives positive change within the...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Silent Shade Planting Company began in 1979 when Willard and Laura Lee Jack migrated from Ontario, Canada, to Silent Shade Plantation in the northeast corner of Humphreys County in Mississippi. They started farming a diversified row crop operation of approximately 1,000 acres with one additional employee just outside of Tchula, Mississippi. By 2000, the farm had grown to approximately 3,000 acres of cotton, corn, soybeans, and rice, and in 2001, Willard Jack received the award for the Lancaster/...
Jul 28, 2023•54 min
Meristem Crop Performance is one of the fastest-growing crop input companies in America right now. Meristem sources, formulates, licenses, and delivers high-quality crop inputs to farmers at the highest possible value offering substantial savings. Overall, Meristem can save farmers up to 30% compared to traditional market prices. Meristem is focused on building a highly efficient channel to bring crop inputs to market so farmers and independent agribusinesses can make the most of their infrastru...
Jul 07, 2023•43 min
Burrus Hybrids was founded in 1935 by two brothers who believed in the value of service and integrity. Still farm-family owned and managed over half a century later, Burrus Hybrids has built on a tradition of growing excellence to become the successful regional hybrid seed corn supplier it is today. When a company stands the test of time through a launch on the coattails of the Great Depression, economic hardships and successes and the creation and utilization of inventions and innovations, it h...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Peterson Farms Seed are a premier corn and soybean seed provider for Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota farmers. They have the most knowledgeable and dedicated staff, working every day to help your operation purchase, plant, and maximize our products. The company’s extensive replicated research program allows selection of varieties and hybrids specifically for northern conditions. They have the largest testing program in their trade area with nearly 19,000 individual soybean yield plots a...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min
McBee Farm & Cattle Co is located in Gallatin, MO consisting of over 40,000 acres. They currently grow corn and soybeans on their row crop ground as well as raise many different breeds of livestock including registered charolais, commercial angus, longhorns, and bison. In addition to agriculture, Honey Creek Ranch offers whitetail and turkey hunting on 6,000 acres of their ground featuring two 5 star lodges with a pool, hot tub, indoor basketball, crossfit gym, game room, 100 yard archery ra...
May 26, 2023•59 min
Whiskey Acres is a fifth generation farm family that took a product that’s abundant in Illinois, corn, and is making it into a farm to spirit whiskey and vodka. Since the 1930s, the Walter family has tilled 2,000 acres surrounding the white clapboard farmhouse where Jim Walter grew up with his wife of 45 years, Sue. The idea for the distillery came to them in 2011 after an Illinois law relaxing craft distillery regulation passed in 2010 and the Walter family was searching for a way to create mor...
May 18, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Sproule Farms, a partnership of family members actively engaged in farming, began operation in 1993 in Grand Forks, ND and Bath, IL that currently grows sugar beets, soybeans, edible beans, corn, hard red spring wheat, durum wheat, rye, oats, and potatoes. At the end of the day, they never limit themselves to conventional crops as they are constantly aware of new, innovative opportunities and pursue them when the potential for success exists. Additionally, the farm also runs an annual event call...
Apr 17, 2023•55 min
In 1946, Wyffels Hybrids was established with a vision to produce seed that could help friends and neighbors be more successful. That promise has resulted in significant growth and opportunity as Wyffels continues to build a team of employees who share that vision for the seed business, and passion for serving customers. Wyffels Hybrids, headquartered in Geneseo, Ill., is one of the nation’s largest independent seed corn companies. Focusing strictly on developing and marketing elite corn hybrids...
Mar 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Started by Carl Yunker as a small dairy farm with 25 cows in 1951, CY Farms was formed when his oldest son, Craig returned home to the farm from college. Carl and Craig built a milking parlor, a free-stall barn, and the 1st bunker silo in New York State and grew the milking herd to 350 cows by 1985. In 1986, Craig and Carl decided to put in a high bid through a government program designed to shrink the U.S. dairy herd and they found themselves out of the dairy business. Over the next 20 years, t...
Jan 29, 2023•58 min
Jorgensen Land and Cattle is a diverse cow/calf and bull development operation that is the largest seedstock producer in the world, which is located in Ideal, South Dakota. In 2021, the operation sold over 4,000 bulls. It includes a 12,000-acre no-till, diverse crop operation that produces feedstuffs, feed grains and certified seed. The family also operates an all-inclusive pheasant hunting lodge called the Lazy J Grand Lodge, which has over 20,000 huntable acres. The post Jorgensen Land and Cat...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 8 min
In 1934, Eldon C. Stutsman started a milk route, and his neighbors soon asked him to bring supplies back from town. As a farmer himself, Eldon was glad to oblige. The requests kept coming and soon a company was born. Today, Eldon C. Stutsman, Inc. is Eastern Iowa’s largest supplier of agricultural products, retail, and wholesale with over 400+ employees. Overall, the company divisions of agronomy, feed ingredient distribution, manure equipment, precision agriculture, field equipment, transport...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Longview Farms is a 4th generation farm in Nevada, IA currently owned and managed by Steve Henry, Laurie Henry, Scott Henry, and Eric Henry. The farm started all the way back in 1955 when Kenneth and Louise Long moved from their farm in Illinois to Central Iowa in search of more productive ground and more aggressive farming opportunities. Over 65 years later, the farm now stretches across 10,000 acres and includes a couple of new livestock feeding ventures, LongView Pork and Grand River Cattle C...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Joe Nichols is a 1st generation farmer from Cadiz, Kentucky and is currently the managing partner at Seven Springs Farms. It’s worth noting, Seven Springs Farms was established in 1994 with just a mechanic and his toolbox after working for Robinson Implement, a local John Deere dealership located in Princeton, KY. It was that same year Joe planted his first crop and through many calculated decisions as well as relationships, he has grown his operation into a huge ag business. It now includes 25,...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Guest : Just a little background… Lucy Stitzer‘s great-great-grandfather W.W. Cargill, founded the business as a single grain warehouse on the end of an Iowa railroad line in 1865. Today Cargill is our nation’s largest private business and the largest food company in the world. Lucy and her cousin were the first of her generation to sit on the Cargill Board. And Lucy served as a Director of Cargill from 1992-2010. Since 2011, Lucy has been chairman of Waycrosse, Inc., the family office of the Ca...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Johnny Hunter II is a 3rd generation rice and soybean farmer from Southeast Missouri. In addition, he is currently the President and CEO of Castor River Farms. His family roots on the farm in Dexter, MO started all the way back in 1954, but Johnny began his regenerative farming journey in 2012 and continues to innovate his practices today. Beyond production agriculture, Johnny and his family own and operate their own rice mill as well. At the facility they mill, package, and distribute the rice ...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 7 min
