Betty is our co-founder and client liaison and land agent manager. She graduated from Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture with a B.S. in Food Technology. Supervising departments with as many as 45 employees and budgets of over one million dollars, her twenty years as manager of Quality Assurance/Quality Control for major food companies including Pillsbury, Sara Lee, Dial Corp., Rich Products, and Tyson, culminated in the creation and implementation of numerous process improvement and cost saving projects, endeavors that led her to be featured in a major food industry publication demonstrating the value of quality being profitable. Her responsibilities included interacting with the USDA, FDA, ingredient suppliers, contract warehouses, buyers, and end users.

In 2007, Betty shifted her focus to the development of clean, renewable energy. Working in the renewable energy industry sector, Betty has leveraged her experience, managerial expertise, can-do attitude, attention to detail, trustworthiness, and ability to interact with a diverse range of individuals to achieve a lengthy record of successful results securing land leases and site control for wind and solar energy development.

From October, 2017 to February, 2019 Betty managed client relations and land agent recruitment and placement for Land Agent Services, LLC. During that time, she expanded the company’s roster of agents, and obtained new clients, writing project proposals and setting budgets, helping to grow the company.

Betty resides in a log cabin along a river in rural Northeast Missouri, three miles from the farm she grew up on and recently purchased. If you happen to call Betty next summer, she says she will keep her phone on and with her at all times, as she may be ‘out standing in the field’.