About CHS
CHS is a global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States. Diversified in energy, agronomy, grains and foods, we’re committed to creating connections to empower agriculture, helping our owners and customers grow their businesses.
Our businesses
CHS offers a breadth of products and services to support our owners and customers every step of the way. Our practical solutions, local expertise and global connections give our farmer-owners and local cooperatives competitive advantages to reach their goals.
AGRONOMY
GLOBAL GRAIN & PROCESSING
Stewardship
CHS is committed to making a meaningful impact in agriculture and rural America. Through our stewardship initiatives, we invest in programs that develop new generations of ag leaders, promote ag safety and strengthen hometown communities.
ABOUT STEWARDSHIP
Cooperative value
Cooperatives are owned and governed by members who use its products, supplies, or services and operate in many sectors of the economy. In a cooperative system, people come together to scale buying power, gain access to goods and services and create economic opportunity.
Careers
At CHS, our teams work together to provide the products, services and expertise farmers and cooperatives need to feed a growing population. As a CHS employee, you help empower agriculture by creating connections that bring shared success.
Family business
For more than 40 years, brother Mark Kimber, far right, and Dale Kimber have been delivering energy products to Sorem Farms. Tom Sorem, second from left, runs Sorem Farms with siblings Lisa Tennessen (shown with her son, Morgan) and Richard Sorem.
The drivers who deliver propane or fuel to farms across the countryside are the face of the cooperative. As the ones responsible for powering all those operations, they often get a friendly wave when they head up the driveway.
Mark Kimber has been on the receiving end of those waves for more than 40 years, hauling refined fuels and propane for Central Farm Service in Owatonna, Minn., to farms and rural businesses across southern Minnesota. Starting in 1978, Mark was one of only a few drivers for the co-op. Another driver was his brother Dale.
"Driver continuity is a big
reason we've stayed with
Central Farm Service as our
fuel and propane supplier."
— Tom Sorem, Northfield, Minn.
The brothers got into the driver’s seat with encouragement from their father, Don, who drove for Central Farm Service for 43 years before retiring in 1991.“Our careers are thanks to the co-op and the customers who rely on the co-op to run their farms,” says Mark. “I’m proud to help the farmers of our community.”
With careers that span decades, the Kimber men have served generations of farm families. “When I started, I’d work with the dads,” says Mark. “Now their kids run the family farm. You get to know the families and are proud of their success.” He says he continued a tradition started by his father, bringing Juicy Fruit gum for customers’ kids. “They’d call me ‘the gum man.’”
Mark and Dale have just retired from their energy delivery careers and the Northfield native looks back on his time as a driver with pride. “For me, it was all about the relationship with farmers and families,” says Mark. “Building trust and growing those relationships was important to me. I got that from my dad."