2023RIC - September Breakfast with Corwin Heatwole

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Corwin Heatwole Breakfast

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September 22, 2023 7:30 AM - 9 AM EDT

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ACG Richmond's Breakfast Series brings together the Greater Richmond business community to network and hear high caliber industry experts share their outlook, opinions, challenges and successes. 


At 23, Corwin bought his first farm to continue the family farming tradition. While he loved the farming lifestyle, he knew the business model was broken. At Farmer Focus their unique business model puts decision making back in the hands of the farmers by allowing them to own their flocks, eliminating farmer competition for compensation, and providing fair pay for their hard work. 

In addition to a commitment to organic, sustainable, humane and traceable farming, Corwin is an entrepreneur turning the farming model on its head, leveraging automation and growing Farmer Focus into a $200MM-plus company. 

Join us as we kick-off the ACG Richmond program year and learn more about the history, present and future of Farmer Focus, including:

  • The problem the Farmer Focus model was created to solve
  • The business success (and challenges) of this business model
  • Addressing consumer preferences 
  • Evolving the business from inception to present and beyond

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Corwin Heatwole

Corwin Heatwole

Farmer Focus
Founding Farmer & CEO

Corwin Heatwole is the founding farmer and CEO of Farmer Focus. A 6th generation family farmer who grew up working on his family’s Shenandoah Valley farm, Corwin founded Farmer Focus in 2014 with a dream of creating a financially viable farming business that he could pass down to his own children. Today, Farmer Focus is the #1 exclusively organic chicken company in the US, partnering with over 85 independent farmers who continue to raise the standards on raising chickens organically and humanely. In addition to leading Farmer Focus Corwin still farms his own land with the goal of creating a farm that uses sustainable and regenerative farming methods to improve animal welfare while driving farm efficiencies. 

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