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.

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

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

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

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