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The Best Soybeans from our family to yours
The SOYBUCKS COFFREE Family Farm has grown the best quality food soybeans available on the market today. All of our food grade soybeans are 100% NON-GMO and grown, tended, harvested and packaged right here on our 5th generation family farm. With over 100 years of farming tradition SOYBUCKS COFFREE is the Quality You Can Trust from our family to yours!
Norman Chambers
Norman grew up on a family farm and has been farming for approx. 35 years. He is well acquainted with farming and what the needs are of growers/producers.
Norman attended Iowa State University and majored in Agri-Engineering. He then worked for General Electric in their jet engine plant in New York state. From there he moved back and started farming with his father Earl Chambers.
Norman first became interested in soybeans when he joined the local county soybean association. From there he moved up through the ranks to officer status and was elected to the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board. From the Iowa Soybean Board he moved up to the newly formed United Soybean Board and helped form SPARC the new soybean check-off.
Through his experiences with the American Soybean Association he has made numerous business contacts in several Eastern Asian countries including Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Japan. Through his contacts in Japan, we were able to ship our first container in 1988 which launched the Farm.
His duties at SOYBUCKS COFFREE Family Farms include; production coordination, seed procurement, seed research and grower relations.
Jonathan Chambers
Jonathan is in charge of the exporting and financial management functions of the farm.
Jonathan grew up on the family farm in Corwith where they have produced livestock and grain since 1886. He has knowledge of what it is like to be a farmer, what a farmer looks for, how he thinks and how to work with the producers needs.
Jonathan graduated in 1983 from Corwith-Wesley High School, attended Iowa State University from 1983 thru 1988. He majored in Agri-business with an emphasis in Economic Analysis, he also took a minor in music performance. After graduating he and his wife came back to Corwith to farm and to have the chance to start a new export business with father.
He had already had contact with the Japanese during High School when his family sponsored a YFU student from Tokyo. Also, in 1988 his family sponsored another YFU student from Yokohama.
Jonathan has made several trips to Japan to meet with the buyers and to understand their soybean needs. There he secured more business for the following years and set into motion policies that are used today to make the business more efficient. He also set in motion the Peanut Oil Shipments which started in January 1992.
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