John Rigdon

Land O'Lakes, Inc. engages in the production and distribution of agriculture and dairy products. It offers butter, cake, bread, spreads, and cheese. The firm operates through the following business units: Dairy Foods, Animal Nutrition, and Crop Inputs and Insights. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Arden Hills, MN.

Countrymark Cooperative Holding Corp. operates as an oil exploration, refining and marketing company. It offers refinery in Mount Vernon, Indiana and fuel terminal locations in Mount Vernon, Switz City, Jolietville and Peru, Indiana, as well as Henderson and Kentucky. The firm fuels and lubricants are distributed to farms, fleets and families. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

Associated Benefits Corp. is a non-profit organization that provides administrative, consulting services for employee benefit plans to the cooperative system. It offers 401(k) thrift profit sharing plans and defined benefit pension plans. The firm also manage employee health and welfare plans including life, medical, dental and vision insurance, along with long-term disability insurance and flexible benefit plans. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in West Des Moines, IA.

Fredericksburg Regional Alliance provides marketing services.

Cooperative Business International, Inc. (CBI) is an international procurement, processing, and export company that works with smallholder coffee and spice producers primarily in Southeast Asia. CBI is based in Westerville, OH. CBI offers premium quality agricultural products that meet the tailored needs, specifications, and expectations of leading industrial processors and retailers within the food and beverage space. The private company is a pioneer and leader in combining production partnership efforts with corporate social responsibility and sustainability.

Midwestern BioAG, Inc. provides agricultural consulting services. It manufactures fertilizers, livestock nutrition, seeds, specialty crops, and organic agricultural products. The firm offers a range of fertilizer blends, dry and liquid fertilizers, and soil amendments; livestock nutrition products, including free-choice minerals and feed inoculants for lactating cows, dry and pre-fresh cows, and calves and heifers; a range of mineral products for berry, orchard, potato, and other fruit and vegetable crop programs; and a range of organic fertilizers and soil amendments for organic agriculture. The company was founded by Gary Zimmer in 1983 and is headquartered in Blue Mounds, WI.