Centrol Crop Consulting

Centrol Crop Consulting is a crop consulting company in Marshall, Minnesota. Its consultants work closely with growers to maximize yields, increase profitability and improve environmental sustainability, giving unbiased recommendations and selling no products. Founded in 1979, the company serves growers in Minnesota, South Dakota and Iowa, and its 50 consultants bring more than 600 combined years of experience. Centrol holds a rating of 4.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

Centrol's work covers in-depth crop monitoring and precision ag services, along with environmental services that help producers turn stewardship into profitable solutions. Those services include manure management planning, initial and annual manure management plans, manure and soil sampling, livestock facility permitting, conditional use permits, variances and building permits, feedlot compliance assistance and Environmental Assessment Worksheets. The team also assists with voluntary government programs such as NRCS technical service provider work, CSP guidance, WIN-PST modeling, EQIP and CNMP planning, plus annual contract reporting and practice recommendations. Additional offerings include industrial by-product permitting and compliance, FSA loan environmental compliance preparation, Phase 1 environmental review preparation, water well monitoring, fertility management planning and GIS mapping.

The company's history runs from its founding in 1979 and its first office in Morris, Minnesota, through whole farm programs beginning in 1982, a Cottonwood office in 1983, one million acres across 13 offices in six states by 1985, and the first grid soil samples in 1989. The office moved to Marshall in 2010, and precision ag and environmental services departments were added in 2013. Bryan Smith, who began with Centrol in 1995, serves as CEO and manager; he holds a B.S. in Agronomy and is a Certified Crop Advisor and Technical Service Provider. Josh Brusven, operations manager, joined as a scout in 2006 and became full-time in 2010, and is also a Certified Crop Advisor.

Centrol sits on Burlington Circle, about 0.2 miles from the Redwood River and State Highway 19. West College Drive is roughly half a mile away, the Channel Parkway Softball Complex about 0.6 miles, and the Marshall Golf Club about 0.7 miles.

Centrol's consultants do not sell products, only service, and the company adheres to the NAICC and ARCPACS codes of ethics. For Marshall-area growers, that independence and depth of agronomic experience are what the firm is known for.