Our Team

Cory Ahrens

Cory comes to Yost Farm from Greenwald, MN. He is a manager and a partner in Swift Pumping, a manure pumping business affiliated with the farm. When not pumping manure, he can be found around the farm working with seed, fertilizer, and chemical. He enjoys golf and snowmobiling. Cory is a graduate of South Dakota State University.

Anthony Anker

Anthony is a Washington state native who began working at Yost Farm in 2016. He is a manager and a partner in Swift Pumping. He has a variety of roles on the farm including coordinating our feed ingredient trucks. Anthony is a South Dakota State University graduate and is a member of the Murdock Fire Department. When not on the farm, he can be found back in Washington snowboarding or practicing his swing on the golf course.

Adam Gamble

Adam Gamble

Adam started at Yost Farm in 2020 and is a Blackduck, MN native. He has many years of over the road truck driving experience. He hauls feed ingredients to the Riverview dairy sites from processing plants in Minnesota and North Dakota.

Bennett Goldenstein

Bennett is part of a father-son trucker driving team at Yost Farm. He drives a tri-axle live bottom truck hauling by products from ethanol and corn processing plants to the Riverview dairy sites. Bennett occasionally hauls loads of separated solids from the Riverview sites to other dairies and retail nurseries in the Twin Cities.

Jeff Goldenstein

Jeff, along with son Bennett, joined Yost Farm in 2009. Jeff runs a tri-axle live bottom truck hauling feed ingredients from several processing plants in Minnesota and North Dakota. Jeff lives on the farm he up on grew up near Kerkhoven, MN.

Matt Loppnow

Matt is a Redwood County native and started at Yost Farm in 2010. He has a lead role in coordinating the repair work on the farm and for CY Harvesting. Matt is a talented operator who helps train new team members on how to operate the different types of equipment. He is a partner in CY Harvesting, a graduate of Ridgewater College and Deputy Chief of the Pennock Fire Department.

Chad Payne

Chad joined Yost Farm in 2020 after years of operating his own farm. He has a wealth of production agriculture experience and has been a mentor to several of our team members. Chad is another local from Chippewa County. He is a North Dakota State University graduate who is on the Boondocks Rescue Squad.

John Saterbak

John grew up near Benson, MN and currently lives next door to Yost Farm. He drives tri-axle hopper bottom trucks hauling feed ingredients from area processing plants to the Riverview dairy sites. John and his wife Katie raise goats on their farm which they sell to 4H participants.

Nick Thole

Nick grew up in Rogers, MN and joined Yost Farm in 2019. He is a quick study who does a wide variety of jobs from running the backhoe to the combine. He also operates a dozer during the haylage and silage harvest. Nick is a graduate of Ridgewater College.

Kevin Lundberg

Kevin and Lundberg Farms transitioned into a partnership with Yost Farm in 2020. He brings decades of farming experience and coordinates the day-to-day activities of our operation. His years of growing sugar beets is a great asset to our farm. Kevin and his wife Sue live on Norway Lake and he is a graduate of Ridgewater College.

Tom Saterbak

Tom lives near his home town Benson, MN. He has several years of experience driving truck and operating farm equipment. He began as a truck driver, today he spends more of his time repairing and operating farm equipment.

Dave Larsen

Dave started at the farm in 2022. He has driven truck for number of years and hauls feed ingredients from area processing plants to the Riverview Dairy sites. Dave enjoys hunting, fishing, and playing poker.

Ben Bruhn

Ben grew up near Willmar, MN where he currently lives and is a graduate of Ridgewater College. Ben’s responsibilities include planting, applying pesticides and harvesting sugar beets. A former high school hockey player, he can often be found at the Willmar hockey arena during the winter.

Brooke Gordon

Brooke is a South Dakota native who joined Yost Farm in 2023. She is our office manager who is responsible for accounting and Conservis data. She and her family live next door to our farm. Brooke is a member of the Murdock First Responders.

Jay Thorson

Jay lives with his family in Clinton, MN. Jay and his dog, Duke, are part of our team that hauls feed ingredients to the Riverview dairy sites. Jay recently retired from the Clinton fire department after 22 years.

Carson Tauber

Carson is a native of nearby Pope County and a graduate of Ridgewater College. He did an internship at Yost Farm and started full time employment in the spring of 2023. He does both trucking and farm work.

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