Our Team

Agricultural Advisory & Agronomy Leadership

Prairieland Ag’s leadership and regional team bring extensive agronomy expertise and industry experience across wholesale and retail agricultural inputs.

With decades of combined experience in procurement, crop protection, micronutrients, and retail agronomy management, our team supports members throughout the Upper Midwest with practical insight and operational leadership.

Grain combine operating in a field with wind turbines behind it

Executive Leadership

Ray Kotchian

CEO & President

Troy Schrader

Chief Operation Officer & General Manager

Operations

Dawn Berndt

Accounting Manager

Vicki Wendt

Data Manager

Matt Thomason

Director of Business Operations

Procurement & Product Leadership

Dave Dufault

Director of Crop Protection

Doug Sigurdson

Director of Micronutrients & Specialty Products

Regional Account Managers

Prairieland Ag’s regional account managers provide direct support to retail agronomy operations.

Bob Crosser

Eastern Region Account Manager

Soren St. Denis

Central Region Account Manager

Mark Dooley

Northern Plains Region Account Manager

Dave Krusemark

South Central Region Account Manager

Chris Cosgrove

North Central Region Account Manager

Jon Berglund

Western Region Account Manager

Advisory Board

Prairieland Ag benefits from the guidance and industry perspective of its advisory board members.

Jeff Peterson

North Branch Mill

Mike Bjertnes

C-W Valley Co-op