AGPROfessionals

AGPROfessionals

AGPROfessionals. I'm Greg Martin with Colorado Ag Today.

The ag industry can be a complicated road to try and navigate. But there is help out there. Thomas Haren, AGPROfessionals CEO talks about the services they provide.

HAREN: AGPROfessionals is a development company exclusive to animal agriculture and agribusiness. We've been in business for 20 years and we function similar to any other commercial development company. We have in-house project initiation, feasibility, finance, project development, public relations and then we move on to site selection and real estate. We have four in-house brokers. And then we get into the due diligence on the properties and permitting, environmental permitting, land use permitting, zoning and survey engineering.

Haren says they try to be a one-stop shop short of actually building and operating. Over the years they have seen some changes.

HAREN: Our clientele is slowly changing. You know the average age in agriculture - I think the latest report was around 58 so we're working with a lot of - I guess you would call them millennial generation, third and fourth generation producers especially dairy folks that are coming in, 20's and 30 somethings and we're seeing a lot of - you know they don't respond very well to phone calls, they want to be texted. You know and then we're seeing a dramatic change in the public and the consumer.

More on AGPROfessionals tomorrow.

And that's Colorado Ag Today. I'm Greg Martin, thanks for listening on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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