Birkey's Farm Store Names New President

Birkey’s Farm Store, Inc., a 100% employee-owned business with locations in Illinois and Indiana, is proud to announce that Brady Foster assumed the role of President on January 1st, 2023. Over the past 15 years with Birkey’s, Brady has held leadership positions at both the dealership level and corporate level.

“Spending the majority of my life in and around Birkey’s, I continue to watch our industry evolve for both Birkey’s and our customers. Birkey’s has had a long history of strong leadership that I always have admired. It is an absolute honor and privilege to assume this great responsibility and lead our employee-owners to help our customers feed the world and build communities,” said Brady Foster.

As president, Brady will assume direct oversight over the operations of the business. Mike Hedge will continue as the Chief Executive Officer, with overall leadership of the business and strategic initiatives as well as overseeing accounting, finance, and IT. As 2023 begins Brady and the team of employee-owners are committed to another year of continual improvement of Birkey’s Farm Store to better serve our customers and their communities.

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Birkey's Farm Store is on the Farm Equipment Dealer 100™ (a ranking of the top 100 North American farm equipment dealers — by number of locations, which provides information on total and ag stores, brands, geographies served, employees, history, executives and ownership/company profile information. 

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