Andrew DeGroot
Company
DeGroot's Vegetable Farms
Job Title
Partner/Co-owner
Accomplishments
Andrew DeGroot is a partner of DeGroot’s Vegetable Farms, a multi-generation family farm located in Saint Anne, Illinois. Andrew grows potatoes, peppers, cabbage squash, soybeans and wheat. Andrew presently serves as a regional director on the Kankakee County Farm Bureau board and previously served as a volunteer firefighter with the Saint Anne Fire Department. Andrew and his wife have been married for 16 years and have three children together.
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