S.D. farmboy turned investment banker creates farm management program
Original Article By Tracy Frank
After growing up on a South Dakota farm, Scott Anderson became a Wall Street investment banker.
But when his dad retired, he moved back to the family farm near Andover and brought some of his Wall Street wisdom with him.
He created a spreadsheet to help manage the fields and calculate his costs to grow each bushel, field by field. When he tried sharing his spreadsheet with other farmers, however, he found it was too complex.
"There were so many formulas and algorithms that it was unusable by anybody but me," he said.
