Management Information Excellence (MIX) is a premier financial planning tool:

  • Designed for top quality agribusinesses
  • Anchored by financial statement benchmarking
  • That is totally confidential
  • Allowing participants to compare their financial performance
  • To the composite performance of the other MIX participants
  • And compare their trends to identified industry trends
  • Thereby providing participant’s senior management with tools to assess performance and coach employees with accurate, meaningful benchmarks
  • In their strive to continually stimulate the growth and improvement of their company at all key levels

MIX participants will be excellent companies seeking to build on their past success and to find new solutions to ever present and rapidly changing market pressures. MIX is designed to go beyond basic benchmarking with tools:

  • Identifying and confidentially sharing Best Business Practices
  • Analyzing different Business Models used to address market segments (seed, precision, etc.) and reporting on the successes and challenges related to those models
  • Focusing on key established and emerging business segments with a strong initial analysis of retail seed businesses
  • Reviewing and reporting on the impact of retailers’ integrated service offerings and any identifiable correlation with overall profitability and increasing service income
  • Providing MIX participants with timely reports, and occasional case studies, on related matters of general industry significance

The MIX Program’s staff consists of dedicated and knowledgeable people with decades of successful experience in our industry. The MIX program includes both annual one on one private meetings and group participant meetings to:

  • Provide private one on one interpretation and apples vs. apples analysis of each participant’s reports in meetings at participant’s offices
  • Share ideas and develop joint goals for the continual improvement of the MIX program
  • Help identify resources and tools that fit individual participant needs
  • Be a resource for one of the key assets of all MIX participants; their quality people

We currently have 26 excellent participants with retail agronomy sales of over $2 Billion.

The participants are generally all multifaceted agribusinesses with additional business divisions such as grain, energy, feed, pork, etc.

Although we may ultimately benchmark different divisions (grain, etc.), we are steadily growing our core group to 30 participants who have agronomy operations as a common thread.

We will cap this group at 30 to 35 top quality participants and begin to develop subgroups to focus on specific shared interests and challenges.