My interests outside of my professional career are my family and anything involving the outdoors, hunting, fishing, etc I am married and have two beautiful daughter, and as it should be my family is my world I grew up hunting, fishing, and spending every waking moment outside, which has led to my appreciation for outdoors and all it entails My family owns our farm here in Hallsville, MO, and it continually gives us the opportunity to raise our daughters with the same appreciation Being able to help others with their dream of land ownership whether for agricultural use or recreational use would be extremely fulfilling for me
TYLER CUPPY
Hallsville,MO
Summary
I've been involved in the outdoors and agriculture my entire life and have learned from the best in the business. Dedication to accomplish objectives in life and career helps me excel at the things I aim to accomplish. Attention to detail, customer service abilities, and adaptive nature all allow me to accomplish tasks efficiently and accurately.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Owner/Operator
LC Cattle Company, LLC.
Hallsville, MO
01.2018 - Current
- Managing confinement feeding operation.
- Organizing medical treatments.
- Growing, harvesting, and marketing crops and livestock
- Manage crop acres, pasture, and woodlands.
- Operating heavy machinery, such as high lift, scraper, skid steer, etc.
- Manage crop rotation between corn, soybeans, wheat, and forage crops.
Retail Sales & Grower Management
Weber Seeds, Inc.
Marshall, MO
08.2014 - Current
- Use computers for various applications, such as creating grower contact lists, organizing yield data, and creating marketing tools.
- Assist staff with computer usage, such as creating Excel and Powerpoint programs.
- Set up and manage paper or electronic filing systems, recording information, updating paperwork, or maintaining documents, such as grower contracts, field inspection reports, correspondence between seed companies, or other material.
- Greet customers or callers and handle their inquiries or direct them to the appropriate persons according to their needs.
- Maintaining and scheduling event such as farm shows, grower meetings, appreciation events, and other special events.
- Provide services to customers, such as order placement, deliveries, mechanical repairs, upholding sales relationships, as well as other needs.
- Building new relationships with potential customers.
- Conducting research, such as corn and soybean plots around different areas for testing current and future product lines.
- Organizing research plot layouts, as well as planting, maintaining, harvesting, and recording plot information.
- Adjust and maintain company web site, making changes as needed and updating on.
- Creating and maintaining all marketing, such as writing radio ads, designing magazine and print ads, creating billboard ads, flyer, mailers, trifold brochures, as well as others.
- Conducted and organized all equipment sales, as well as grain bags sales.
- Assisted with logistics for wheat sales, such as driving semi to pick up wheat loads in Southern Missouri, and organizing other loads to be shipped and received.
Owner/Operator
DC Rural Property Management, LLC.
Hallsville, MO
01.2021 - 07.2023
- Developed business plan, processes and procedures to provide superior land management and agricultural fencing to customers.
- Consulted with customers to assess needs, propose optimal solutions, and create work estimates.
- Managed budgeting and financial planning to maintain profitability and operational efficiency.
- Established relationships with suppliers to secure high-quality materials and equipment.
- Evaluated market trends to adapt service offerings, maximizing sales potential throughout seasons.
- Managed day-to-day business operations.
- Provided exceptional customer service, addressing issues promptly to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business.
- Ensured compliance with relevant regulations, maintaining proper documentation and licensing requirements.
Salesman
Tyre Seeds
Slater, MO
02.2013 - 08.2014
- Build new relationships with area growers in central Missouri.
- Take seed orders and organize pickup or delivery dates.
- Keep inventory of seed and keep it well organized for ease of loading.
- Handled all seed treating throughout the preseason and in season transactions.
- Advise customers of what seed products would work best on their particular farms.
- Maintain relationship with customers, such as answering agronomic questions, scouting fields, stand counts, etc.
- Delivery of seed to customers throughout central Missouri.
- Assisting on the Tyre Farm, working ground, planting, operating machinery, driving semis (grain haulers), and more.
- Maintaining cow herd, such as feeding and maintaining pastures, as well as taking care of everyday occurrences.
Warehouse manager & Seed Treater Operator
Hardy Sales and Service
Blytheville, AR
02.2012 - 02.2013
- Develop customer relations.
- Managed warehousing for seed and chemicals.
- Operated the seed treater, as well as organizing when to treat certain orders and what to treat with.
- Conducted seed sales.
- Conducted chemical sale for things like herbicides and fungicides.
- Delivered products to customers (seed, chemical, equipment).
- Assisted with parts inventory.
Farm Assistant
Four A Farms
Blytheville, AR
05.2011 - 02.2012
- Assisted with Custom Application operation, driving semis, water trucks, operating sprayer.
- Assisted with Custom Harvesting operation; operating harvest machinery such as grain cart, combines, cotton pickers, module builders, and tillage equipment.
- Maintaining irrigation systems, from pivots to poly pipe flood irrigation.
- Assisting with everyday farm labor, maintaining and repairing equipment, as well as upgrading old machines.
Farm Assistant
Thompson Farms
Marshall, MO
08.2009 - 05.2011
- Assisted with Custom Harvesting, driving grain haulers, operating machinery such as tractors, skid steers, combine, etc.
- Assisted with everyday farm labor.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Sports Medicine/Athletic Training
Missouri Valley College
Marshall, MO05-2011
Bachelor of Science - Exercise Science
Missouri Valley College
Marshall, MO05-2011
Skills
- Dedication to objectives
- Work ethic
- Customer and Personal Service
- Operations management
- Attention to detail
- Business planning
- Organization
- Documentation and reporting
- Technologically savvy
- Adaptive
- Extensive agricultural knowledge, livestock and grains
- Operation of machinery and tools
Interests
Timeline
Owner/Operator
DC Rural Property Management, LLC.
01.2021 - 07.2023
Owner/Operator
LC Cattle Company, LLC.
01.2018 - Current
Retail Sales & Grower Management
Weber Seeds, Inc.
08.2014 - Current
Salesman
Tyre Seeds
02.2013 - 08.2014
Warehouse manager & Seed Treater Operator
Hardy Sales and Service
02.2012 - 02.2013
Farm Assistant
Four A Farms
05.2011 - 02.2012
Farm Assistant
Thompson Farms
08.2009 - 05.2011
Bachelor of Science - Exercise Science
Missouri Valley College
Bachelor of Science - Sports Medicine/Athletic Training
Missouri Valley College