Who We Are
Lighthouse Commodities was founded in 2015 to provide professional merchandising and related services for farmers throughout the region. Lighthouse equips its farmer clients with the same resources, tools, insights and access the rest of the grain supply chain enjoys. Our team brings decades of combined merchandising experience to work for you, having traded more than $3 billion worth of commodities across livestock production, commodity processing and grain merchandising. Lighthouse currently provides professional merchandising to clients representing over 775,000 acres of production with 100% client retention since day one.
Oct 2015
Founded
Founded as standard Commodity management w/Financing from Standard Nutrition company
dec 2015
Signed 1st Client
Signed first professional Merchandising client
Feb 2016
Jessica Crist
CFO Jessica Crist Joins as employee #2
Oct 2017
Est. Lighthouse Hedging
Established lighthouse hedging futures brokerage
nov 2017
Re-financed
Company re-financed with Jim Kirkeide and cornerstone bank
Dec 2017
Andrew Kabes
Andrew Kabes joins as CEO
Jan 2018
Rebranded
Company rebranded As Lighthouse Commodities
April 20th 2019
Jim Kirkeide passes away
Dec 2019
Software Automation
Software process automation begins
Jan 2020
1st Client Summit
First annual client summit held
Oct 2020
Beacon Fund Est
Beacon Fund matching donation program
established on Five year anniversary
Dec 2020
Hedged Beacon
Released
Hedged Beacon signal algorithms released
Jan 2021
Est Lighthouse Logistics
Established lighthouse logistics freight brokerage
Nov 2021
Hedged Beacon Subscription
Launched hedged beacon subscription product
Dec 2021
100 Millionth
Bushel
100 millionth bushel ships
Jun 2023
Automated Trading
System
Went live with first automated Trading system
Oct 2023
$1 Billion
Cumulative sales cross $1 Billion
Jan 2024
Beacon Pricing
Launched beacon Pricing product
Jun 2024
launched Birthday
Beacon program
sept 2024
launched Market
Gauges
Nov 2024
Broke Ground On
New Office Building
Dec 2024
Shipped 200
Millionth Bushel
Who We Work For
