From the land to the whole food system.

I came to agriculture sideways. I moved west at thirteen, saw cattle grazing in the field next to my high school, and couldn't stop wondering how it all worked — the animals, the land, the people who ran it. So I found ranch work and fell for it: irrigating, putting up hay, building fence, moving cow-calf pairs and finishing steers. Before long I was responsible for 1,400 yearlings and 1,500 acres of hay. Ranching taught me how a real operation runs — and how much rides on the soil underneath it.

I studied bio-resource engineering at Montana State, then spent years in ag-tech, helping grow a producer sustainability program from ten thousand acres to three-quarters of a million — making regenerative practices pencil out for everyone from ranchers to Fortune 500 buyers. I've co-founded ventures in regenerative agriculture and honest food-quality information, and helped a community-owned grocery win a $350,000 grant to open its doors.

Qorner Consulting is how I bring those worlds — the ranch, the lab, the boardroom, the co-op — into the same room and get them working together: toward a food system that's more resilient, better connected, and backed by the right capital, where producers, food businesses, and communities all have a real shot, soil to plate. If that's the future you want too, let's build it.