Full Name
Paul Seehusen
Job Title
CEO
Company
Prairie PROducers
Speaker Bio
CEO Paul has been married to Leah for 36 years, raising two children. Paul has degrees in Accounting and Business Education, as well as business experience through the pharmacy he and his wife owned and operated for 13 years, along with his own companies, TG Technologies and the P&D Party Machine, which he operated while teaching business ed classes at BOLD high school.
Growing up on a small hobby farm in Renville County and working for farmers from the age of 11 helped Paul to better understand agriculture as it was his first true love.
America – Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. During his 9 years with ASCS he became an expert in Production Adjustment. As a Production Adjustment Assistant he was responsible for the interpretation of the government farm programs and the implementation of them in counties in Minnesota and was also responsible to train all other Minnesota county Production Adjustment assistants each year how to administer the government farm program. He also developed organizational government farm program software that was used nationwide.
Paul and Tim were given the responsibility to determine the future of their family’s business, Pro Equipment Sales. As their father had died years before, it was now their responsibility to become manager, hire a manager, or come up with a game plan to keep the business a going concern. Tim is currently the manager, and a young man was hired to be trained to keep the company on task.
Looking for ways to grow the family business, Paul set out to learn more about the new commodity, industrial hemp, to not only help their family business but also to help his home county farmer friends and the downtrodden economy of west central Minnesota. Over two and a half years, and many miles of travel, Paul and Tim have gained enough knowledge and wisdom to be considered experts in the field of industrial hemp for fiber. Utilizing that knowledge, they have gained collaborative arrangements with many organizations, including government, the textile industry and current industrial hemp fiber facilities.
Growing up on a small hobby farm in Renville County and working for farmers from the age of 11 helped Paul to better understand agriculture as it was his first true love.
America – Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. During his 9 years with ASCS he became an expert in Production Adjustment. As a Production Adjustment Assistant he was responsible for the interpretation of the government farm programs and the implementation of them in counties in Minnesota and was also responsible to train all other Minnesota county Production Adjustment assistants each year how to administer the government farm program. He also developed organizational government farm program software that was used nationwide.
Paul and Tim were given the responsibility to determine the future of their family’s business, Pro Equipment Sales. As their father had died years before, it was now their responsibility to become manager, hire a manager, or come up with a game plan to keep the business a going concern. Tim is currently the manager, and a young man was hired to be trained to keep the company on task.
Looking for ways to grow the family business, Paul set out to learn more about the new commodity, industrial hemp, to not only help their family business but also to help his home county farmer friends and the downtrodden economy of west central Minnesota. Over two and a half years, and many miles of travel, Paul and Tim have gained enough knowledge and wisdom to be considered experts in the field of industrial hemp for fiber. Utilizing that knowledge, they have gained collaborative arrangements with many organizations, including government, the textile industry and current industrial hemp fiber facilities.
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