Welcome
Welcome
and thank you for shopping at Fairview Farms for
your Soybean Needs. Fairview Farms is part of
the Chambers Family Farm with over 100 years of
farming tradition. All Soybeans and Soybean
Products are grown, harvested, processed and
packaged right here on our 5th generation family
farm.
Quality you can Trust from our farm to
your Table.
Fairview Farms
2304 150th Street
Corwith, IA 50430
(515) 583 2198
e-mail: jonathan@fairviewfarms.com
Fax: 515 583-2192
Iowa residents will have 5% sales tax added to
their orders. Shipping and Handling is
calculated by weight and added to each order.
Our
Friendly Hometown
People
Norman Chambers
The President of the
corporation is Norman Chambers.
Norman grew up on a family farm and has been
farming for approx. 35 years. He is well
acquainted with farming and what the needs are
of growers/producers.
Norman attended Iowa State University and
majored in Agri-Engineering. He then worked for
General Electric in their jet engine plant in
New York state. From there he moved back and
started farming with his father Earl Chambers.
Norman first became interested in soybeans when
he joined the local county soybean association.
From there he moved up through the ranks to
officer status and was elected to the Iowa
Soybean Promotion Board. From the Iowa Soybean
Board he moved up to the newly formed United
Soybean Board and helped form SPARC the new
soybean check-off.
Through his experiences with the American
Soybean Association he has made numerous
business contacts in several Eastern Asian
countries including Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and
Japan. Through his contacts in Japan, we were
able to ship our first container in 1988 which
launched Fairview Farms.
His duties at Fairview Farms include; production
coordination, seed procurement, seed research,
grower relations and President of the Company.
Jonathan Chambers
The Vice President of the
corporation is Jonathan Chambers.
Jonathan is in charge of the exporting and
financial management functions of the farm.
Jonathan grew up on the family farm in Corwith
where they have produced livestock and grain
since 1886. He has knowledge of what it is like
to be a farmer, what a farmer looks for, how he
thinks and how to work with the producers needs.
Jonathan graduated in 1983 from Corwith-Wesley
High School, attended Iowa State University from
1983 thru 1988. He majored in Agri-business with
an emphasis in Economic Analysis, he also took a
minor in music performance. After graduating he
and his wife came back to Corwith to farm and to
have the chance to start a new export business
with father.
He had already had contact with the Japanese
during High School when his family sponsored a
YFU student from Tokyo. Also, in 1988 his family
sponsored another YFU student from Yokohama.
Jonathan has made several trips to Japan to meet
with the buyers and to understand their soybean
needs. There he secured more business for the
following years and set into motion policies
that are used today to make the business more
efficient. He also set in motion the Peanut Oil
Shipments which started in January 1992.
