2022 20 Under 40 Farmer
About
Sarah Tweet-Landers is the co-owner of Tweet and Landers Farms in Mendota and Earlville, Ill, where she raises corn, soybeans and beef cattle. Landers was a high school agriculture teacher for 14 years, and prior to that, she worked for Grainco FS, Cargill AgHorizons, Crop Pro-Tech and the University of Illinois Dairy Research Farms. Today, Sarah is employed by the University of Illinois as a parttime supervisor, where she visits student teachers of agriculture education at their host schools to evaluate while they are teaching, as well as managing both Tweet and Landers Farms with her husband, Jeff. Landers also owns Tweet Floral Design, where she creates floral arrangements and design work for weddings, receptions and other special events.