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MISSION STATEMENT

Build a successful growing business based on servicing the specific seed potato needs of producers worldwide

Pieper Farms LLC Basics

 

  • 8,750 tiled, tillable acres owned (3,541 hectares)

  • 100% of farmland is tile drained, ensuring perfect soil moisture

  • 12,000+ total tiled acres of farmland available to the farm through land swap (4,856 hectares)

  • Lake of the Woods, Minnesota microclimate

  • Minnesota state potato seed quarantine area ensures no unapproved seed potatoes come within 100 miles of the farm, helping keep our farm disease free

  • Ideal soils for tuber and root structure

  • 180,000 cwt ventilated, temperature controlled, computerized storage

  • Middle of the country location means we can deliver with efficiency to both coasts

  • Experience in international shipping with strong, longstanding customer base

  • Management and farming team in place

  • Wide selection of potato varieties available, including, but not limited to:

    • Chieftain

    • Calwhite

    • Dark Red Norland

    • Red Norland (several strains)

    • Yukon Gold

    • Granola

    • Atlantic

    • Gold Rush

    • Red Lasoda

Minnesota Seed Potato Quarantine Area

 

  • No other potatoes, seed or commercial, can be grown in area

  • Keeps out other possible disease vectors

  • Many seed areas have cross contamination from other potato crops, we do not

  • 0.5% max virus rating

  • Real economic benefit to customers

  • 100 miles from nearest potato grower

 

NO DISEASE ISSUES

  • Do NOT exist at Pieper Farms, 0 occurrence

    • Ralstonia

    • Dickeya Solani

    • Cyst and Golden Nematode

    • Ring Rot

    • Frost Line

Lake of the Woods, Minnesota Microclimate

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The combination of tiled ground and unique microclimate created by the farms proximity to Lake of the Woods creates special growing conditions not found this far North

  • Warm lake water protects crop from frost

  • Warmer fall

  • Overall longer season, 2+ weeks

 

Unique Protection from Surroundings

 

  • Protected from South and East by large wetland-forest areas

  • Protected by lake to the North

  • Some farming to West in narrow corridor

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