Jerry Ploehn

Gold-Eagle Cooperative provides agricultural co-operatives and financial services in North Central Iowa. Its services include crop drying, feed and fertilizer, storage and warehousing, product marketing and other farm management services. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Goldfield, IA.

Town & Country Insurance Agency, Inc. provides life and risk insurance services. The firm specializes in commercial and personal property and casualty coverage's. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX.

ICM, Inc. provides instrumentation, design, and support of ethanol plant distributed control systems. The firm offers automation, DCS migrations, energy center, engineering, manufacturing, pilot development and aftermarket services. Its products include advanced gasification technology, ammonia to fermenters, base tricanter system, beer column distribution upgrades, bio-methanators, CO2 scrubber retrofit, DCS upgrades, ethanol recovery, gas-fired equipment upgrade, gas monitoring enhancement, molecular sieve laterals, rotary dryers, steam-tube dryers and steam turbines. The company was founded by Dave Vander Griend on January 23, 1995 and is headquartered in Colwich, KS.

Conestoga Energy Partners LLC operates ethanol production plants. It offers ddtiller's grain, conestoga connection and conestoga logistics services. The Company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Liberal, KS.

Prairie Horizon Agri Energy LLC is a renewable fuel corn ethanol producer based in Phillipsburg, KS. The plant was designed and built by ICM Inc. of Colwich, KS, and has a nameplate production capacity of 40 million gallons per year. The company employs approximately 30 people. The company was founded in 2003 and has been in operation since 2006.

Minnesota Soybean Growers Association operates as non-profit organization. The firm monitors government policies, supports research activities and market development activities to improve the profitability of soybean farmers throughout the state. The company is headquartered in Mankato, MN.