Published May 5, 2025
Growing a Cover Crop Business: Sponheim Sales and Services
By Practical Farmers of Iowa
Dean Sponheim, Josh Sponheim and Rachel Amundson co-own Sponheim Sales & Services in Nora Springs, Iowa. They offer custom seed cleaning, aerial application, custom drilling and interseeding. In this video, Dean and Josh talk about the “bare bones” start to the business in 2014 and share the story of the business growth that followed.
Since 2020, PFI and the Iowa Soybean Association have partnered to provide the Cover Crop Business Accelerator program to new and established businesses around the Midwest.