Tom S. Karlson

Rural American Fund (Rural American Fund) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by Thomas Karlson. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

La Crosse Forage & Turf Seed LLC produces forage, turf, pasture seeds, and related specialties for agriculture, turf, and landscaping applications in North America. It offers agricultural products, such as alfalfa, red clovers, white clovers, trefoils, high sugar ryegrasses and pasture mixtures, bromegrass, tall fescue, orchardgrass, reed canary grass, timothy, teff summer lovegrass, forage mixes, sorghums and sudangrasses, specialty forages, and sweet corns. The firm also provides cover crops, including winter wheat; wheat stubble; wheat, silage, or short-season corn; standing corn or stubble; and corn or soybeans. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in La Crosse, WI.

Seeds 2000, Inc. provides research and development of sunflower hybrids. It offers various seeds, such as sunflower, corn, and soybean varieties. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Breckenridge, MN.

TCI Holding Co. develops and provides technology crops. Its business categorized under following groups: specialty crops, specialty oils and specialty ingredients. The firm's specialty oils are produced from the crops, grown by growers who follow strict management protocols for sustainability and identity preservation. Its specialty ingredients are derived from the crushed seeds that produce nature’s crops specialty oils. The company was founded by Michael Boyd Wainscott and Andrew Bruce Hebard in 2004 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.