Case Studies Agriculture

Founded in 1990 by Curt and Tracy Bjerke, Bjerke Brothers Inc. (BBI) is one of the Midwest’s leading designers and suppliers of grain- and seed-cleaning systems and equipment. Based in Buxton, North Dakota, BBI serves customers big and small, including grain cooperatives, private and commercial grain and processing companies, among others, completing work on export […]

QED Dryer Sales & MFG Inc. (QED) stands for three main principles in business: quality, efficiency and dependability. Since 1986, the family-owned and -operated company has armed agriculture professionals with the tools to improve their harvest by preserving and increasing grain quality. QED manufactures continuous mixed-flow heat-recycling grain dryers for corn, rice, wheat, milo, soybeans, […]

Family-owned and -operated Interstate Commodities Inc. (ICI) has been serving the feed industry since 1947. Victor Oberting Sr. established the business after a long tenure with the Seagram’s whiskey facility in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Seeing an opportunity in the feed industry, he began purchasing distillery grains and selling to the feed industry in the eastern U.S. […]

With a rich history in supplying farms with high-quality animal feeds, innovative feeding solutions and excellent customer service, Shur-Gain, a Nutreco Company has been serving upstate New York for more than 20 years and Canada for more than 75 years. Headquartered in Strykersville, New York, Shur-Gain sells and manufactures premixes, supplements and complete feed programs […]

Phillip Hord has always been involved with his family’s farm at “the slat level.” It’s a turn of phrase his family uses in reference to slats of a barn floor, and it means “what’s going on at our farm from a day-to-day basis,” says Hord. Hord is in the fifth generation of his family to […]

One of the top family owned beef producers in the nation, Adams Land & Cattle LLC has been providing its customers with quality product for over 40 years. Using bot Increasing quality through technology Jerry Adams, CEO of Adams Land & Cattle, has been in the cattle industry his entire life. His father had a […]

Since 2013, Alforex Seeds has been one of the agricultural industry’s leading alfalfa and forage producers for the dairy and beef industry. One of the largest pure alfalfa producers in the market, Alforex Seeds mission is to develop and market innovative proprietary alfalfa technology that increases forage productivity of forage producers to meet the needs […]

Founded in 1968 by Jimmy Tosh, Tosh Farms LLC has built a reputation as a leading producer of pork products and grain over the last 40-plus years. Located in Henry, Tennessee, Tosh Farms sources pork from an extensive network that includes 75 contract growers and 300 barns across Kentucky and Tennessee. The family-owned and -operated […]

“My father moved to our present location in Dallas County, Iowa in 1934 and started raising small amounts of public-certified seeds such as oats and soybeans,” tells Stine. Born and raised in Adel and growing up around the family business, Stine graduated from Central Dallas High School and then went on to McPherson College in […]

Since 2004, Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition has grown from humble beginnings on North Street in New Haven, Vermont, to a widely recognized leader in the New England-New York dairy feed industry. Phoenix Feeds & Nutrition understands its customers’ daily struggles and knows making a living in today’s increasingly commercialized dairy business is not easy. This […]