At Ag Chief, we worth high quality. Guided by our 4 core values – Excellence, Approachability, Prepared-Prepared-Doing, and the Braveness to do What’s Proper, every of our departments attempt to supply merchandise they’re proud to face behind, by no means compromising on high quality. As a result of we function in a tradition of steady enchancment, our product failure charge is lower than 1.5%. Whereas we’re happy with that achievement, it additionally drives us to enhance that quantity every day.
That dedication to high quality additionally extends to the individuals we rent. As part of the Ag Chief household, our staff worth ethics, relationships, belief, and integrity whereas thriving in an environment that isn’t solely modern and welcoming however encourages concepts and creativity.
Meet Christin Achenbach
A part of the Ag Chief workforce for 11 years, Christin Achenbach is a kind of staff. Because the gross sales administration supervisor and lead for worldwide gross sales processing, Christin oversees Ag Chief’s Order Processing Division and coaches her workforce to offer virtually instant responses to questions and orders obtained.
“I’m very keen about offering prime notch customer support for our sellers,” Christin says. “We set a excessive bar of expectations and attempt to fulfill these expectations on daily basis.”
AL: Inform us about the place you grew up and the way that influenced your profession path.
CA: I grew up on a Century Farm in Victor, Iowa. My household had a cow/calf herd, market beef, farrowing swine operation, chickens, in addition to raised corn, beans, and alfalfa/hay. I can’t bear in mind a weekend from my childhood the place we weren’t within the farrowing home clipping tooth, reducing tails, notching ears, and giving photographs to child pigs.
Rising up, my household would attend church on Saturday evening at 5 p.m. One way or the other all six of us would make it out of the farrowing home at 4 p.m., take turns showering in a home with one rest room, and nonetheless get to church on time!
My summers have been spent making hay and straw and filling the mow with a bale hook/pulley system. I additionally grew up collaborating in 4-H. I confirmed cattle and pigs from 4th grade till my senior yr. My dad was additionally energetic in 4-H committees and was a swine superintendent.
I’ve at all times had a ardour for agriculture and farmers. I used to be lucky to have the ability to develop up on a household farm operated by my dad and mom the place each of my grandpas labored alongside them.
AL: Does your loved ones nonetheless farm as we speak?
CA: My dad handed away in 2005 because of accidents from a automobile accident. My household acquired out of the livestock aspect of the enterprise and continued to crop farm. At this time, my mother nonetheless lives on the household farm, and a neighborhood farmer rents the farm floor.
My husband Todd and I constructed a home on my household’s farm in 2016. Whereas it saddens me to not have my kids develop up on the as soon as thriving livestock/crop farm I used to be part of, I’m so grateful they get to develop up using in tractors, lending a hand the place doable, and gathering eggs from my mother’s chickens. It’s a small glimpse into the onerous work required of farm life.
Pictured from L to R: Cayson (13), Todd, Jeter (4), Lyla (7), Christin, and Mac (10) Achenbach.
AL: What do you take pleasure in most about working at Ag Chief?
CA: My favourite half about working for Ag Chief is the individuals. I really like working for an organization the place your coworkers are additionally a few of your closest buddies. It’s such a close-knit group of folks that after you have labored for Ag Chief, you’re at all times a part of the Ag Chief household. I really feel it’s such a detailed knit group is due to the like-minded, hardworking values most people characterize. I completely love telling individuals I meet that I work for Ag Chief, and I’m proud and grateful to work right here.
AL: If there was one factor you need farmers to learn about Ag Chief and the merchandise we create, what would it not be?
CA: One of many people who stories to me made the assertion as soon as that “We give a rattling right here at Ag Chief.” I couldn’t agree extra. We positively care lots!
AL: In your time at Ag Chief, are you able to share an achievement or expertise you’re most happy with and why?
CA: I used to be most proud to be part of Ag Chief’s twenty fifth anniversary in 2017. In the course of the week-long occasion, there have been so many reminiscences made as we celebrated the historical past and development of Ag Chief. It was a FUN week!
I’m additionally very lucky as a result of I get to be concerned in Ag Chief’s worldwide enterprise. I’ve traveled to Europe a couple of occasions to characterize our firm and to construct relationships with our European distributors. I really feel very lucky to know so many individuals in numerous international locations all over the world.
AL: What do you love to do in your free time?
CA: In my time outdoors of labor, I’m a spouse and a mom to 4 children (Cayson, Mac, Lyla, and Jeter). My children are very energetic in sporting actions, and I completely love watching them do the issues they love. I really like making reminiscences with my household and spending time collectively. I’m additionally very energetic in serving on the church I attend, and I volunteer lots round my area people. I additionally like to play volleyball, carry weights/energy prepare, take heed to Christian/political podcasts, watch true crime reveals, drink espresso (particularly with buddies), and journey. •
ABOUT THIS SERIES
Within the We Are Ag Chief collection, we’ll introduce you to a wide selection of people that work at Ag Chief. Our founder, Al Myers, created Ag Chief in 1992 with one mission in thoughts: To supply a office that challenges and motivates people to create and ship modern merchandise.
Finally, addressing the needs and wishes of farmers is our primary precedence. We exist to boost the lives of farmers all over the world by creating confirmed precision farming expertise that exceeds farmers’ expectations.
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