My children and I own a 320-acre pasture south of Massena, Iowa and an 80-acre pasture west of Bennington, Nebraska. These farms are held by our family farm corporation and rented to local beef cow-calf producers.
Although both farms are too small to be profitable in today’s commodity and high value specialty markets, we do not want to sell.
Instead, we are inviting our rural neighbors and food processors along with Omaha area residents and investors to join us in developing regenerative production units and farmer owned retail food brands.
As used here, a production unit is a group of contiguous and nearby farms leased by the current owners to one experienced local operator selected by the owners. Farmer owned food brands will be designed to increase farm profits by increasing consumer support for foods sold through local and regional food service and grocery outlets.
Production Units
Our goal is to organize a large number of highly efficient production units that operate under local farmer-controlled companies. These commercial-scale units will supply high volume and high value commodity markets as well as local and regional food processing companies that deliver to Omaha area food services, restaurants, and grocery stores. This food system and its farmer owned brands will be locally financed.
Consumer and Investor Support
In other words, we are organizing economies of scale in local food systems that allow smaller farms and their current owners to compete in local, regional, national, and international markets.
I am asking commodity groups, farm organizations, city and county governments, churches, and civic organizations, etc. to help us get the word out on meetings with Omaha area residents, landowners, farmers, and investors.
Page two on this website explains marketing and related issues in more detail. Page 3 summarizes my qualifications, introduces my business partners, and outlines my family history in farming.
Please read on and then contact me for an appointment.
Thank you.
Jim Steffen, President
Massena Corporation
402-317-2639
jim@MassenaFarms.com
Posted 04-02-2026