ABOUT

WHO WE ARE

At Forever Feed Technologies, we believe that it will only get harder for farmers around the world to drive profitable multi-generational farms while lowering water consumption, minimizing emissions, adopting green solutions, managing supply chain restraints and forecasting world-wide commodity swings.

Many CEA companies claim to use only 5% of the water and a fraction of the land. We think this is just the beginning of the efficiencies Forever Feed technologists will be discovering.

Forever Feed is proudly owned and controlled by experienced and influential farmers and producers in the animal agriculture sector. 

While technology can be greatly magnified to do amazing things, farmers themselves better understand what they need to successfully integrate technology and to improve their bottom line, while also being good stewards of the earth.

Forever Feed is partnering with some of the world's best integrators, automation engineers, and controlled environment agriculture specialists to help design, build, and install on-farm machines to the exact operational specifications needed.

The planet needs all of us to do more with less. A recent UN Sustainability report states that farmers will need to produce 70% more food (in the next 30 years) using less land and water consumed today than conventional growing. At Forever Feed our technology solutions are focused precisely on “doing more with less”.

Pictured: The Bar 20 Dairy in Northern California installed fuel cell technology to convert dairy waste into electricity.

OUR FOUNDERS

  • JACK DE JONG

    CO-FOUNDER, CEO, & CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF FOREVER FEED TECHNOLOGIES

    Jack is the owner of River Ranch Farms in Hanford, CA. This farm includes a 1880-acre dairy operation, which is affiliated with Land ‘O Lakes, and land to grow dairy feed. Jack also farms additional ranches which grow more dairy feed, almonds, and blueberries, totaling over 3,500-acres farmed in all. He is also an investor and advisor in the Alpha Omega Collective, a winery in Napa Valley, which produces and sells wines from Napa, San Luis Obispo, and Spain. Jack is a leader in sustainable agriculture technology and his practices include having installed solar energy systems on his farm and participating in developing one of the first clusters of dairy manure digesters producing biogas. The cluster digester system collects methane gas from eight farms in the region and is sent to a central hub for processing before it’s fed into the Southern California Gas Company pipelines, replacing 4-million diesel gallons of trucks and buses each year. This biogas hub is doubling in capacity this year. Jack was honored as the 2023 Kings County Agriculturist of the year for his outstanding contributions to the agricultural community.

  • STEVE LINDSLEY

    CO-FOUNDER AND BOARD MEMBER OF FOREVER FEED TECHNOLOGIES

    Steve led the development of automated sprout grain technology as President of Grōv Technologies from 2018 to 2021. Steve has extensive experience in business development, television broadcast technology and management having developed the first consumer digital cable TV broadcast platform in 2003. He also managed several cable TV advertising western markets for Comcast NBCUniversal and Cablevision in Los Angeles. Prior to that Steve was the president of KSL Television, the NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City.

  • STEVE SHEHADEY

    BOARD MEMEBER

    OF FOREVER FEED TECHNOLOGIES

    Steve is a third-generation dairy farmer in Fresno County, California. He and seven other family members own Bar 20 Dairy and Larry Shehadey Farms. Bar 20 Dairy has a herd of approximately 14,000 animals and milks almost 7,000 cows two times each day.

    The dairy supplies milk to another family business, Producers Dairy, which distributes local dairy products throughout California. The family operates two megawatts of solar and methane digester that produces energy from the dairy waste with a Bloom Fuel Cell. The dairy also installed an electric Feed mixing station which runs from the renewable electricity produced by the fuel cell. The renewable energy projects produce more energy than the dairy and farms consume.

  • ARIE JAN DE JONG

    Arie Jan de Jong is President of de Jong Family Farms and Providence Dairy near Francesville, Indiana. The newer dairy milks 3,500 cows. All the calves are raised at Providence Dairy from birth to 5 months of age and then are sent to a custom grower. The dairy farming operation raises corn and wheat in rotation along with alfalfa to feed the cows. Arie’s family has been involved in the dairy business and milk processing for several generations.