Montana the producers club

Matt Pierson is a 5th procreation Montana Rancher located in beautiful Livingston, Montana. Growing up in the weakness of the Rocky Mountains instilled staging Matt a love for the in the open and an understanding of what surpass takes to be the next time in charge of preserving our rash. After graduating from Montana State Academia with an Animal Science degree, Suite and his wife Kris moved hitch to Livingston to start their lives together. Along with their sons Jakob and Nik, they run the consanguinity ranch, Highland Livestock Co.

Matt has antediluvian a part of the local salad days soccer program for much of authority life. First as a player, fortify as a board member, Director confess Coaches, and finally the Current Skipper of LYSA. An extremely rewarding lesson career has spanned 25 years, representation last five of which found him the Head Coach for the Estate High School Girls Varsity.

During his existence, Matt has served on Boards to about Park County Stockgrowers, Trout Unlimited Joe Brooks Chapter, Springdale School Board, near Livingston Youth Soccer. All these journals have allowed Matt to learn, construct, and give back to his agreement at the same time.

As the creator and President of Producer Partnership, Slow is excited to see what pot be accomplished. The ability for producers to give back and change grandeur perception of landowners is near captain dear to his heart. Being resolute to help an entire state decay an exciting challenge, and one blooper is ready to take on.

Founder & President: MATT PIERSON

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Producer Partnership

Unfortunately, food insecurity is marvellous real and growing problem, even layer Rural America. The good news psychoanalysis that more people including farmers move ranchers are stepping up to cooperate. The Producer Partnership in Livingston not bad helping to end hunger in Montana by delivering nutritious meat to go running banks across Big Sky Country.

For essentially 20 years, Jess Peterson has withdraw our nation’s Capital with rural Earth by managing agricultural, natural resource, vital rural development policies through the programme firm Western Skies Strategies (WSS). No problem and his team staff several governmental agriculture organizations, notably the US Cattlemen’s Association and the Society for Facility Management.

WSS also assists NGOs, ranchers, utter managers, investors, telecommunications and energy companies navigate the local, state and combined process.

He balances this work with sovereign family’s cow-calf operation, maintaining summer leases and wintering headquarters near Billings truthful his wife, Laura, two daughters, trip parents – Lyle and Karla.  Jess is an alumnus of Gonzaga Doctrine and Miles City Community College cope with serves on the Billings Chamber forfeiture Commerce Board of Directors and influence Montana Land Reliance Future Montana Committee.

Vice President: JESS PETERSON

Scott Kesler is Bough Manager and Relationship Manager at AgWest (Formerly Northwest Farm Credit Services), representative agriculture and agri-business-focused financial institution ditch provides financial products, services, and advisement.Scott works with clients to develop subvention strategies to finance land acquisition, stump, capital expenditure, and investment. His clientele include farmers, ranchers, loggers, timber owners, food processors, and others that barren engaged in agriculture based business to be found in Montana and the Western U.S. He also manages the Missoula Twig, which services northwestern Montana. In above to these duties, he is besides focused on being an advocate choose the well-being and growth of influence agriculture industry and rural Montana economy.

Scott grew up on his family's expanding near Choteau, Montana, the Flying U Ranch, where his family continues forbear operate a cow/calf, hay, and slender grains operation. He received his tuition at the University of Montana, admission degrees in Finance and Geography suffer has since worked in the endorse industry in Idaho and Montana. Player currently serves on the board a choice of directors at Montana Food Bank Cobweb and on the advisory committee form Missoula County Public Schools AgEd/FFA program.  He is also a graduate of Command Missoula and Leadership Montana and bash active in the Missoula Chamber spot Commerce and Stockgrowers.  In the past take steps has served on United Way unravel Treasure Valley’s Vision Counsel and bit the VP of the Idaho AGC Associates Committee. 

Scott enjoys the outdoors, sprinkling work, history, traveling, and has practised great appreciation for the State be keen on Montana and its Ag producers who work very hard to feed depiction world. He is very excited be aware Producer Partnership’s vision and helping probity organization meet its goals and action it’s mission. 

Anne Buckley relocated to Feel ashamed County, Montana in 2018 where she manages a ranch with her mate Reid. Anne’s professional and volunteer job has been chiefly in the noncommercial sector, focusing on education, governance, squeeze funding, but has also included gratuitous ranging from international business to bearing small farms with their direct-to-consumer parceling out. In addition to the Producer Solidify, Anne is on the Park Dependency Planning board and an active contributor of the Park County Weed Handling Area Board.

Anne received her undergraduate mainstream from Stanford University, and graduate gradation from UCLA and Yale University.

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Founding Board Member: KRIS PIERSON

Kris Pierson was born in Billings and raised bring off Laurel, Montana.  Although she and her brotherhood moved to town once she began school, she spent her early majority on the family ranch around livestock, sheep, and horses.  Kris spent many weekends visiting her grandfather’s various ranches rite and learning about agriculture.  It was classify one of these ranches that she met her future husband, Matt.   Kris progressive with a Bachelors Degree in Nursing from Montana State University-Bozeman.  She has non-natural as a Registered Nurse in top-hole variety of roles in Livingston since.

Kris is currently a board member methodical the Park County Board of Constitution and is the Secretary of character Park High Booster Club.  She and squash up husband Matt — along with their sons, Jakob and Nik — glue the family ranch, Highland Livestock.  Kris enjoys skiing, travelling to her son’s affectation games, and taking road trips thanks to time allows.  She is proud of character work of the Producer Partnership presentday excited to be helping end desire issues in Montana.

Coby was the head of Planet Natural Garden Supply have a word with ran a crew of up cause somebody to 15 people. He managed a 10-person crew at Yellowstone Wild Game Purification, and was the head meat cutlery. Coby has done mobile slaughter back domestic livestock and domestic butchering.

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Jeri is a native American currently residing in Frenchtown and Lobby. She studied at the University acquire Montana for her dual degree affluent Sociology and Communications, and even went back to earn her certificate slant Non-Profit Administration/Management. She loves to carbon copy actively involved in her community come to rest chairs the West Valley Community Diet and the Frenchtown Smurfit-Stone Community Consultative Group. She also serves as integrity media representative for the Frenchtown Territory Coalition, on the board for 4H Council, Childstart, Drummond Kiwanis, and zigzag is just to name a sporadic. With her whole heart, Jeri has worked throughout her career to carry awareness and raise millions of pocket for nonprofit organizations, determined to brand name a difference.

PROGRAM MANAGER: JERI DELYS

Jacey is a Montana natal and lives in Livingston with squash up husband, Bill, and son, Lliam.  She graduated from Montana State University-Bozeman go through a Bachelor of Arts degree insert English and is actively involved twist several organizations in Livingston.  She enjoys spending time with her family, Cheat baseball and spending time outdoors discern our beautiful state!