BARABOO — Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association is pleased to announce that Kevin Schultz has recently been promoted to market manager at the cooperative’s Monroe market. In this role, Schultz oversees the Monroe market operations and staff, as well as maintains relationships with producers, truckers and buyers. He will work with member-owners to understand and meet their livestock marketing needs. 

Schultz has worked at Equity Monroe for eight years. He originally worked as a part-time yard worker, then transitioned into a field representative before becoming assistant manager and now market manager. He looks forward to continuing to sustain existing relationships with producers, as well as build new relationships with new patrons. 

Schultz lives in Lena, Illinois, with his wife Renee, and their two young daughters Hadley and Piper. Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association is a federated cooperative headquartered in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Equity operates 12 facilities, and services producers in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Equity services producers with the marketing, managing and financing of their agricultural businesses.