Rochester, MN  -  Post Bulletin

Award-winning ag entrepreneurs are young, but savvy

10/5/2009 6:45:02 AM

By Janet Kubat Willette

Agri News staff writer 

CHATFIELD -- One breaks horses and resells them, while the other raises and sells cattle. And now they're both winners of the National FFA Agri-Entrepreneurship award, meaning two of the 10 winners in the country are from Chatfield.

Jordan Hanson, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and Tyler Steinbrink, a Chatfield high school senior, will receive the awards Oct. 23 during the FFA convention in Indianapolis. Each will get $1,000 and have a display at a career show at the convention.

Hanson buys unbroken horses, breaks them and resells them. His neighbor, Steinbrink, runs a cattle business. Steinbrink buys cattle at around 400 pounds and raises them to about 750 pounds on pasture. He has someone who purchases cattle for him while he's in school.\