My company Prairie Feed & Trucking LLC, previously known as Co-Products Plus LLC was founded in 2005. I have a 34 year career history with Land O’ Lakes Inc. and CHS Inc. (Cenex) and has extensive domestic and global management experience in feed commodities and crop inputs. PFT’s original objective was to provide marketing and logistic services to the emerging ethanol industries animal feed co-products in NW Iowa and SW Minnesota, focusing on cattle feedlots and dairies.

When I moved back to the farm I had gained a lot of knowledge from my professional experience and wanted to use them in my farming operations in O’Brien county. I watched my neighbors use a lot of tillage to prepare the soils for planting which seemed like work and cost and soil health was going the wrong direction. I also watched some of my no-till neighbors and I liked what I saw in soil health and higher yields that generate much higher profits. We started to include our livestock nutrients in our production plan which helped again in cost and better nutrient management.


Al Giese

supplierId

supplierPageQuery

supplier

paginatedFieldList_supplierWithFields

paginatedVerificationReportList_supplierWithVerificationReports

bayerSupplierPage_supplier

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name

company

description

crops

practices

timeline

website

methodologiesForIssuedProjects

address

issuedTonnes

soldTonnes

parcels

publicVerificationReports

query supplierPageQuery(
  $supplierId: String!
) {
  supplier(supplierId: $supplierId) {
    ...paginatedFieldList_supplierWithFields
    ...paginatedVerificationReportList_supplierWithVerificationReports
    ...bayerSupplierPage_supplier
    customId
    id
    name
    company
    description
    crops
    practices
    timeline
    website
    methodologiesForIssuedProjects
    address {
      state
      country
    }
    issuedTonnes
    soldTonnes
  }
}

fragment bayerSupplierPage_supplier on SupplierProfile {
  ...paginatedFieldList_supplierWithFields
  ...paginatedVerificationReportList_supplierWithVerificationReports
  company
  description
  crops
  practices
  timeline
  website
  methodologiesForIssuedProjects
  address {
    country
  }
  issuedTonnes
  soldTonnes
}

fragment paginatedFieldList_supplierWithFields on SupplierProfile {
  id
  parcels(first: 3, hasRemovals: true) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        ...supplierFieldCard_parcel
        __typename
      }
      cursor
    }
    pageInfo {
      endCursor
      hasNextPage
    }
  }
}

fragment paginatedVerificationReportList_supplierWithVerificationReports on SupplierProfile {
  id
  publicVerificationReports(first: 3) {
    edges {
      node {
        id
        publicPdfLink
        dateCreated {
          date
        }
        __typename
      }
      cursor
    }
    pageInfo {
      endCursor
      hasNextPage
    }
  }
}

fragment supplierFieldCard_parcel on SupplierProjectParcel {
  id
  publicName
  publicFeatureCollection
  vintages
  soldTonnes
  tonnes
}


Owner	Al Giese
Crops	Corn and soybeans
Practices	Vertical Tillage corn stalks and no till soybeans and use cattle and hog manure
Timeline	Started to vertical till in 2016 and no till soybeans in 2015 and will keep the same practices in the future.

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