Kjerstad Realty Group is active in listing and selling recreational, rural residential, farm and ranch real estate.  Mr. Krebsbach has been licensed in real estate sales since 2006. 

Krebsbach graduated from the University of North Dakota in 1975 with a BS in Business Administration.  He then went on to North Dakota State University and graduated with a Post Graduate Agronomy Studies degree in 1978.  Krebsbach was the owner/operator of Krebsbach Farming from 1971-1992 in the Devils Lake, ND area and then from 1992-2003 in the Rapid City, SD area.  This was dry land farming utilizing no-till technologies and irrigated farmland.  His other business experiences include owning and operating apartments and condominiums in Rapid City, SD since 1998 with Copa Company, LLC. 

Related Experiences:

SOUTH DAKOTA WHEAT COMMISSIONER 1998-2007. Appointed by Governor to a third term.  Acting Chairman for two years.  Responsibilities include market development, allocating research funding, representing SD farmers, facilitating trade team trips.  Involves extensive national and foreign travel and committee work.

U.S. WHEAT ASSOCIATES BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Washington DC, appointed position, 2000-2007. Responsibilities include promoting and marketing all U.S. wheat.

U.S. WHEAT EXPORT TRADE AND EDUCATION COMMISSION, Washington DC, appointed position, 2003-2007.

CIVIL AIR PATROL PILOT, search and rescue operations.

TRADE TEAM HOST FOR FOREIGN AGRICULTURE DIGNITARIES from countries including South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Peru, Morocco, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia and Lithuania.  Led U.S. Trade Teams to Brazil, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Mexico and Cuba.

PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL MEMBER, served as panel member outlining future farming practices on the Great Plains, Ft. Collins, Colorado, Spring 1997.

MONSANTO CORPORATION REPRESENTATIVE, chosen as spokesperson for national televised product promotion Spring 1996.  Keynote speaker for Monsanto's Main Event National Seminar Winter 1995.   Presented seminars on effective conversion of sod or CRP land into crop land production without the use of tillage, Winter 1995.

MET WITH PRESIDENT BUSH, chosen as representative of SD farmers to discuss drought issues and foreign trade issues involving Trade Promotion Authority with the nation of Chile, Fall 2003.

Licenses, Activities and Organizations:

SD Broker Associate, License #13313