Marc Severson
About Marc
Marc Severson is an Illinois farmer, business operator, and adviser whose experience spans agriculture, transportation, and business restructuring. He manages Severson AG, a 5,000-acre grain operation, alongside a regional trucking business and his work with Forge.
His perspective comes from the daily responsibility of making businesses work: allocating capital, managing people, maintaining equipment, and connecting operational decisions to financial results. His background as an Army officer also shaped how he thinks about leadership and decision-making in large organizations.
Through Forge, he brings that experience to business diligence and workout situations, helping owners and lenders understand operational challenges and the decisions needed to address them.
Marc writes and speaks candidly about the business of agriculture, questioning familiar assumptions about machinery costs, labor, technology, farm growth, and who ultimately captures the value farmers create. He is particularly interested in how the farmer’s role is changing as agriculture demands more sophisticated management of capital, risk, and people.
On Ag Off the Record, Marc brings a working operator’s perspective to the table, connecting big industry questions to the practical realities of running a farm and building a business.