Our Values and Foundation Principles
Our foundational principles grow out of our core values. They shape the corporate and divisional strategies that guide our daily work.

Customer Focused
- Deliver safe, quality food that exceeds customer expectations
- Differentiate products
- Develop business-to-business branding
- Utilize storage and processing to make products available as close to year-round as possible
Sustainable Producers
- Preserve and enhance natural resources
- Be environmentally responsible
- Treat animals humanely
- As part of sound crop rotations, wheat, edible beans, edible oils and milk may be produced to support humanitarian readiness


People Centered
- Attract, develop, engage and retain the best talent
- Treat all with dignity and respect
- Keep employees safe
- Be good team members
- Be emotionally mature
Engaged Citizens
- Act with absolute integrity
- Ride for the brand
- Lift our communities and industries
- Enhance the appearance of our operations
- Allow use of non-essential land for appropriate church and community activities


Performance Motivated
- Get world-class financial and management results
- No food contamination incidents
- Innovate using good science, business best practices and proven technology
- Emphasize land-based, capital-intensive enterprises
- Manage assets with proper financial, credit, and security controls, and timely record keeping
- Foster strategic relationships with vendors, customers and other producers
- Diversify by product line, customer and supplier bases and value-added processing
Land Based
- Acquire the best land in the best places to produce the crops grown
- Lease or direct-operate land based on economies of scale, profitability and long-term resource management objectives
- Protect and enhance long-term value by preserving future land-use options
- Make disciplined acquisition and disposition decisions by involving specialists in production, finance and land
- AgReserves primarily produces food crops, which can be used for humanitarian purposes if needed
- Tobacco, coffee, wine grapes, malt barley, marijuana and hops are not produced on AgReserves property
