Joe Nester Consultant Interview
We recently started interviewing some of our consultants that have been with us for many years as part of our new Consultant Outreach Program. By doing this we are hoping to be able to share some of their experiences and knowledge with some of our other consultants, who might have questions or just simply need to hear the wise words of someone that has been through all the ups and downs over the years. These Consultants have been wonderful to give us a few minutes of their time and we thank them for that. We look forward to future talks with them and future talks with other consultants as we grow our Outreach Program.
Joe Nester has been with Brookside for over 25 years. Before he joined Brookside, he was very successful in the retail fertilizer business, but realized that he wanted to be doing more in the field and agronomy work, so he decided to was time to start his own consultant’s business. He didn't learn about Brookside right away, he had someone else tell him about Brookside and what all we offer as a company. He looked into our company and realized it would be an excellent fit for him. So that is how Joe became a consultant with Brookside.
Joe has been very successful running his business over the last 25 or so years. He has learnt a lot and had to go through all the battles of starting your own business. Starting your own business can be risky but reaching out to guys like Joe to hear their battles and success stories is a great place to start for someone that is looking to possibly do the same. Brookside has many wonderful consultants, like Joe, willing to offer advice and knowledge to anyone looking at getting started with Brookside.
Check out Joe's consultant interview or any of the other interviews that we have done with our consultants to hear about their journey to Brookside and success that they have had. Joe offers some great advice during his interview.
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We were recently joined by Dan Coffin, of Biodyne-USA for a discussion on soil biology. Topics include the late planting conditions of 2019 and the implications this may have on our nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer programs. Also covered, the significance of late planting to nitrogen assimilation by diazotrophic bacteria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YJoLhFZhM
Earlier this month, Brookside Laboratories, Inc. hosted Dr. George Place of North Carolina State University to discuss emerging interest in industrial hemp. Dr. Place did a fantastic job presenting a primer on industrial hemp. Topics included uses (fiber, seed, or oils), regulations, processing, biology, lab testing needs, food safety hazard concerns, pests, diseases, and others. This presentation was a great session and an excellent starting point for gathering information on this exciting new cropping opportunity. I strongly encourage everyone to catch up here if you were unable to join us live. Click this link to go to our YouTube Channel and watch the webinar.
Brookside Laboratories have the opportunity to make a commercial this last year and it has been airing on certain dates on Fox Business Network. Click the link below to view our commercial. https://youtu.be/KmxZ9XZTcEs
Free, interactive seminar to demystify soil health and start laying the foundation for optimal soil health on your farm. Soil Health 101 Seminar: Demystifying Soil Health https://blog.familyfarmsgroup.com/soilright/seminar
We recently started interviewing some of our consultants that have been with us for many years as part of our new Consultant Outreach Program. By doing this we are hoping to be able to share some of their experiences and knowledge with some of our other consultants, who might have questions or just simply need to hear the wise words of someone that has been through all the ups and downs over the years. These Consultants have been wonderful to give us a few minutes of their time and we thank them for that. We look forward to future talks with them and future talks with other consultants as we grow our Outreach Program. We recently talked to Tom Menke, who has been a consultant for over 40 years. He has done a lot of crop consultants, nutrient work, and has been mostly focused on environmental work. With having knowledge in more then one area of consultant, Tom can offer much value in helping spread his knowledge in your consultant community.
David Ricke recently came in and wanted to give his testimonial on how the Brookside program really has worked for him over the years. Some people might be a little hesitant to believe such a program could work, but Dave wanted to prove to everyone that it has worked for him for many, many years and he wouldn’t be a consultant today if it wasn’t for this program. In Dave’s presentation he used a couple different farms that has been with him for just as long as he has been a consultant. The first exam was a corn belt farmer. He shows in the presentation that different years and how his numbers for base saturation percentage has done wonders. He also used a large livestock producer, this farm was in good shape when Dave started with him, but there is always room for improvement, and that’s exactly what he did. He improved the farms numbers over the years.
We recently started interviewing some of our consultants that have been with us for many years as part of our new Consultant Outreach Program. By doing this we are hoping to be able to share some of their experiences and knowledge with some of our other consultants, who might have questions or just simply need to hear the wise words of someone that has been through all the ups and downs over the years. These Consultants have been wonderful to give us a few minutes of their time and we thank them for that. We look forward to future talks with them and future talks with other consultants as we grow our Outreach Program. David Ricke has been with Brookside for over 30 years. He has put in lots of hard hours and time to get where he is today. Dave was like any other consultant that started out working for a large layer farm in Indiana. Dave eventually started to branch out in other areas of the agriculture industry which lead him to becoming a consultant for Brookside in 1981 in our agriculture division. David has been very successful over the years, but him like anyone else once you get to retirement age, you start to think about different things that he could have done better over the years. This is one question that was asked during his short interview and Dave’s response was “plan my retirement better”. I think this is something that is a worry for all and hearing his prospective of it, might just be the knowledge that some of our younger consultants need to get them going in the right direction for their futures, even long after Brookside