Moore & Warner Ag Group

03/17/2023

WE ARE HIRING!

Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC

Farm Manager

Moore & Warner, a successful and diversified farm management firm seeks an ag professional with 2-5 years of experience to serve as a farm manager working alongside the company president to manage key accounts and special projects. Ag professionals transitioning to farm management for the first time are encouraged to apply.

About our Firm
Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC has a 170+ year history in Central Illinois in the farm management business. Today the company and its affiliates engage across farm management, farmland investing, and consulting services for a global client base. We maintain a professional, results-oriented, and cheerful atmosphere with significant opportunities for growth.

About the Role
The successful candidate is organized, task-oriented, and eager to learn from and work closely with the firm principals as he or she develops in their career. The primary focus of this role is farm management but candidates should expect active engagement and growth across all areas of the business.

Primary Duties:
- Farm management for properties in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas, including lease analysis, tenant selection, lease negotiation, budgeting and reporting, input purchasing, grain marketing, farm visits, and relationship management

- Commercial property management for a limited number of non-ag properties

- Research, analysis and support for special projects related to client farmland acquisitions and agricultural investments

Secondary duties include purchase/sales brokerage for farmland transactions.

Regional and overnight travel required. Highly competitive salary & benefits.

Position Requirements
- Meaningful personal or professional experience with row crop farming and production
- Background in agronomy, ag engineering, or ag economics a plus
- Minimum 2-5 years professional experience
- Bachelor’s degree and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Real estate broker licenses held (or willing to obtain) in Illinois, Iowa

This position requires a regular presence at Moore & Warner’s office in Clinton, IL to work with the team and firm principals but also includes business travel and remote-work time.

Please submit cover letter and resume to:
[email protected]

Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan

Education:
Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:
professional: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person

03/17/2023

Office space for rent in beautiful, historic building overlooking downtown Clinton, IL.

03/17/2023

10/27/2022

WE ARE HIRING!

Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC

Admin Assistant / Bookkeeper

Moore & Warner, a successful farm management firm seeks an administrative assistant to support our business. Full-time or part-time positions available. Positive attitude a must!

About our Firm
Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC has a 165-year history in Central Illinois in farm management, and today the company and its affiliates engage across farm management, farmland investing, and consulting services for a global client base. We maintain a professional, results-oriented, and pleasant atmosphere.

About the Role
The successful candidate is reliable, well-organized, detailed-oriented, and technologically minded with experience in accounting. Primary responsibilities will include reception, bookkeeping, accounts payable, and administrative support for farm managers and company principals. This is an in-office position in our well-appointed offices in Clinton, Illinois.

Duties include:
- Record keeping/accounting (QuickBooks)
- Accounts payable
- Telephones/reception
- General admin support

Competitive salary & benefits.

Requirements
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a professional office environment
- Accounting / bookkeeping experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness to learn
- Proficiency with QuickBooks (preferred, not required)
- Associate’s or bachelor’s degree (preferred, not required)

Please submit resume to [email protected]

Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

08/29/2022

The 54th Annual Apple ‘n Pork Festival will take place September 24th & 25th. The modest fundraising event, which originated on the C.H. Moore Homestead DeWitt County Museum grounds years ago around a kettle of soup simmered over an open wood fire and stack of sandwiches, has evolved into a two-day, signature event celebrating harvest, heritage, history, and hospitality.
The Apple ‘n Pork Festival was established by the DeWitt County Museum Association to provide the funds necessary to restore and furnish the palatial home of one of DeWitt County’s most prominent citizens, Clifton H. Moore. One of Clinton’s earliest residents, Moore was a law partner and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, a land speculation partner of David Davis, and one of Clinton’s leading benefactors. Once one of the finest residences in the city, the Moore house had fallen to disrepair by the 1960’s. In 1967, as the once grand structure on the north edge of town approached a century of existence, it was slated for demolition. One of Moore’s heirs offered use of the property to the then newly-formed DeWitt County Museum Association on the condition that the association refurbish and maintain the historic Victorian mansion and open the doors to the public.
That first small and humble Apple ‘n Pork Festival was deemed a success. The funds raised were utilized to carry out the monumental task of refurbishing the once grand, old house room-by-room, during the next twenty years.
Now fully restored and operating as a museum, events venue, and historic landmark, Moore’s former residence and accompanying acreage and outbuildings are visited by thousands each year. Minerva Moore Bishop, the original lady of the house, would be pleased to have so many visit her home which, from the 1870’s until Minerva’s death in 1880 (at which time, her brother, Clifton H. Moore purchased the property from his widower brother-in-law) was deemed one of the most welcoming in the city. According to tradition, Minerva enjoyed nothing more than inviting people into her home. That hospitable tradition continues as the museum is open for tours six days a week, nine months of the year. During the Apple ‘n Pork Festival approximately 1,000 tour the landmark mansion, and an average of 80,000 attend the festival.
Artisans demonstrating old-fashioned crafts, an antique tractor show, free farm museum tours, blacksmithing and meal grinding demonstrations, pony rides, artists displaying their work, free musical entertainment, a huge flea market, tours of the Moore house, and over 25 food booths featuring a wide variety of delicious, old-fashioned, apple and pork foods can all be enjoyed on the museum grounds.
Among the “apple ‘n pork” offerings are smoked ham sandwiches, apple fritters, pork rinds, apple cider floats, apple butter, grilled bratwurst, pork chops, hot caramel apple sundaes, apple pie, and ham and beans prepared over an open fire. Home baked gingerbread cookies, funnel cakes, kettle corn, river rat potatoes, homemade candies, biscuits with gravy, and other old-time favorites will also be served.
Across the museum’s little red covered bridge, more than 250 flea market booths offering antiques, crafts, and a variety of other unique items and merchandise can be found. Pony rides and a petting zoo are also located north of the bridge.
Today, the objective of the Apple ‘n Pork Festival remains the same – event proceeds help fund routine museum maintenance & operation, educational programs, activities, and special events. Many other local non-profit organizations also benefit greatly from food booth sales made on the museum grounds.

08/18/2022

08/18/2022

Ready to grow your skills as a specialty crop grower?

Apply for the new Illinois Small Farm Apprenticeship Program — a comprehensive, year-long training experience that will expose apprentices to every aspect of small farm management.

Learn more: https://aces.illinois.edu/news/new-u-i-farm-apprenticeship-turns-out-veggies-and-well-equipped-farmers

08/18/2022

Join us for a Seed Saving Workshop on Saturday, 9/17 at 10:30am. Participants will learn important concepts and techniques for seed saving. You will learn how to select the best plants for seed saving, isolate varieties, plan your garden for seed saving, and different techniques for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing seeds. Register by September 16 by calling 217.935.5174. This event is offered in partnership with University of Illinois Extension and the DeWitt County Master Gardeners.