HULTGREN FARMS HISTORY
Duane Hultgren is the President of the Hultgren Farms organization. He has been involved in the farm since he was a child and prides himself in "never moving an inch"--he has lived on the exact same piece of ground his whole life. He has led the farm from 800 acres in the early 80's to well over 4,000 acres in 2009. Duane has served on the St. Johns Township Board and is the chairperson of the Kandiyohi County and City of Willmar Economic Development Commission. His hobbies include "production brainstorming", fantasy football, hunting, fishing, touring the Colfax wilderness, and golf. His wife, Nancy, also assists in the management of the farm--she is the bookkeeper and office administrator.

Nate Hultgren is Chief Executive Officer of Hultgren Farms and Chief Financial Officer of Bird Island Bean Company. Nate is a 1999 graduate of the University of Minnesota-Duluth with a degree in Finance. He oversees the day-to-day crop operations and inputs while cultivating Hultgren Farms' outside interests. Nate also serves on the Calvary Lutheran Church (Willmar) council. His interests include employee betterment programs, superfarm merging structures, fantasy football, snowmobiling, ice fishing, and golf. He and his wife, Jaime (RN at Rice Memorial in Willmar), also live in the small Hultgren Farms "town" with their daughter, Lily, and twins, Nora and Elias.

Noah Hultgren returned to the farm to take an active role in the business in 2002. After acquiring a Sales & Management degree from St. Cloud Technical College, Noah pursued certification as a Realtor. Noah is now the Development Manager and is leading Hultgren Farms in the establishment of a Real Estate/Property Improvement sector. Noah actively concentrates on crop production during the entire crop year and is a Realtor with North Central Realty in Olivia. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, fantasy football, snowmobiling and ice fishing. Noah and his wife, Paula, have two beautiful daughters, Ella and Samantha, and live in Willmar.

As Hultgren Farms focuses on machinery, human resources, acreage expansion, agronomy practices, facilities, financials and information, the organization plans to use these foundation blocks to further create value-added marketing of all farm commodities, input control, support industries, custom farming, mergers, and eventually retail products and services. Hultgren Farms is indeed "Farming > Moving > Forward."