BARABOO, Wis. — Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association is pleased to announce that Jim Lindsay has recently been promoted to market manager at the cooperative’s Altoona market. In this role, Lindsay oversees the Altoona market operations and staff, as well as maintains relationships with producers, truckers and buyers.
Lindsay has worked as assistant manager at Equity Altoona for more than six years. He looks forward to continuing to sustain relationships with existing producers, as well as build new relationships. He joined Equity Livestock with a vast knowledge base in the field of agriculture. He previously served as a regional marketing coordinator for Accelerated Genetics.
Lindsay holds a bachelor’s degree in animal science with a meat animal emphasis, from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He lives in Boyd with his wife, Tammy, and two children, Taylor and Levi. He is the owner of a 25-head Angus and Simmental Angus cow/calf herd, and enjoys watching his children show cattle, attending their sports competitions, and enjoys hunting.
Lindsay is a member of the Chippewa County Farm Bureau, involved in the Chippewa County Quality Meats Program, and is a board member for St. John’s Lutheran Church.
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association is a federated cooperative headquartered in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Equity operates 11 auction markets and has collection points in Ettrick,Wisconsin, and Menominee, Michigan, and has a hog and cattle marketing center in Arlington, Wisconsin. Equity services producers with the marketing, managing and financing of their agricultural businesses in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
—Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association