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The definition of progressive, Landus President and CEO, Matt Carstens, joined Mike on the AcreForward podcast to talk about some of the greatest challenges farmers are facing today. Spoiler alert: inputs and agronomy don’t make the list.
“If we can get this (health insurance) under control, that spouse that may be better at merchandising or selling and hedging grain can come back home full time. That son or daughter can come back from college or graduate high school and join the farm right away. That’s powerful, and people shouldn’t have to take jobs off the farm just for insurance. We are better than that as an agricultural community — as the United States of America, for people that provide the feed and fuel for us all. We have to do better. Landus has a lot of passion around that,” Carstens says.
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The definition of progressive, Landus President and CEO, Matt Carstens, joined Mike on the AcreForward podcast to talk about some of the greatest challenges farmers are facing today. Spoiler alert: inputs and agronomy don’t make the list.
“If we can get this (health insurance) under control, that spouse that may be better at merchandising or selling and hedging grain can come back home full time. That son or daughter can come back from college or graduate high school and join the farm right away. That’s powerful, and people shouldn’t have to take jobs off the farm just for insurance. We are better than that as an agricultural community — as the United States of America, for people that provide the feed and fuel for us all. We have to do better. Landus has a lot of passion around that,” Carstens says.