Keystone Farm Future

from PGMAG 37 Edition June-July 2022

Marvin Muoneké

Larisa Miller, business leader, entrepreneur, and disruptor, may have done business around the world for many years, but has found her most meaningful impact on the farms in her home state of Pennsylvania, USA. With food security being our number one global crisis, recognizing that there won’t be an investment in any industry or sector that will make sense if we can’t feed ourselves, Larisa is pioneering a new way forward for secure beef production. As president and CEO of Keystone Farm Future, Inc, Larisa created a transformational livestock management model that ensures supply chain security for supermarkets, a fair and sustainable income for family farms, and locally grown and produced, high-quality beef for consumers. Focusing on five pillars of animal health, biosecurity, animal welfare, environmental stewardship and nutrition, the Keystone Farm Future business model de-risks the beef supply chain for the supermarket, ensuring they have a surety of supply and a top product to add to offer their customers.

“No matter how transformational an idea is, an idea remains an idea without the team to execute it, and I am fortunate to have a world-class team working to not only execute this idea, but to reshape an entire industry”, notes Miller. With herd management, veterinary care and nutrition being the centerpoint of the Keystone model, Larisa Miller is supported on the leadership team by Dr. James Holt, chief veterinarian and Dave Rodgers, chief herd manager. Collectively, this trio of agricultural visionaries have built a program that is being heralded as “the future of beef”. “Our model removes the big packer margin, allowing us to offer our clients a secure, transparent and condensed supply chain, that guarantees that the supermarket has high-quality beef on their shelves – regardless of disruptions in industry or society; that our family farms are given a clear, fair and economically sustainable way-forward raising our livestock; and that we can assist our small and medium-sized processors to gain strength and momentum, taking a portion of the market share that would normally belong to the large multinational packers who have controlled the industry for decades”, says Miller. “We are never going back to normal, because ‘normal’ was the problem, and I’m so fortunate to have the shared vision, knowledge and expertise of Dr. Holt and Dave Rodgers, as we work to reshape, innovate and architect a new way forward for one of our most critical industries.”

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Website: www.keystonefarmfuture.com