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Jacquie Voeks, a Senior Market Advisor for Stewart-Peterson, Inc., was born and raised on a family dairy and grain farm in Southeastern Wisconsin. Life on the farm has given her a unique understanding, perspective, and respect for what it takes to succeed in agriculture. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in business. Jacquie owned and operated her own feed mill for fourteen years. In addition to running the business, she did nutrition consulting and financial planning for farms with both Purina and Domain Inc.
Jacquie is a frequent guest on WILL (Illinois University Radio), where she presents her marketing perspective. In addition, she has written articles for Successful Farming's Ag Online and Top Farmer weekly perspective, a product of Stewart-Peterson. She is also a contributing author for Top Producer's Outlook feature. Jacquie is currently teaching cattle and grain risk management for a bank in Nebraska.
Jacquie has been in on the grass-roots level in developing strategy for two products Stewart Peterson offers: the broad based marketing "Strategy," and their customized marketing program "MATRIX." Both programs are designed to assist farmers in maximizing their marketing results, with the overall objective to make our customers successful for decades to come!
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Lester Bartel joined Stewart-Peterson Group six years ago. A Senior Market Advisor, he has worked with a diverse group of agricultural producers in both the feedgrain and livestock sectors. With the advent of the dairy futures markets, he has taken the lead at Stewart-Peterson in developing an advisory service especially tailored for dairy producers. Lester has worked with farmers in the Dairy Options Pilot Program and is the author of the weekly "Stewart-Peterson Dairy Page."
On a personal note, Lester operated a family dairy farm with his wife Bonnie for 23 years. He is the local township chairman, a high school athletic coach, church elder, and volunteers in the 4-H club and school district. He and his wife have three children -- ages 20, 15 and 10. He was an active Farm Bureau member, serving as a county director, treasurer and district representative to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federations State Young Farmers committee. He was a finalist in the State Farm Bureau Discussion Meet.
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