

Originally from Springfield, MO, Ross studied at University of Missouri where he earned his BSBA in Business Management with honors. Harvest has been named one of Forbes Small Business Giants, Inc.’s Best Workplaces, and Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures.īefore co-founding Harvest, Ross began his career with Procter & Gamble as part of the P&G Walmart Global Customer Team in a variety of category management and sales positions. Since its founding in 2006, Harvest has grown from a bootstrap startup that started at a kitchen table to a recognized industry leader with a national award winning culture. Ross’ goal in starting the Harvest Group was to honor God by building a values based culture that focuses on doing the right thing, delivering remarkable results with humility, never settling for ‘good enough’, serving one another, innovating new ways of working, and leaving a positive impact, all to the benefit of clients, retail partners, and teammates alike. Ross Cully is Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Harvest Group. Whether it’s getting my kids to their games on time, delivering seed to a field at the right time, or consistently delivering our harvest crew their meals twice daily at mealtime, it’s just one of the ways I try to maintain awareness of real time while living in the “Harvest Zone.ROSS CULLY Founder & Chief Executive Officer These are the steps I take to keep moving forward and not overlook important tasks needing my attention. To know what day it is and to be aware of what time it is helps me stay as grounded and focused as possible.

While it seems excessive, all of this helps me to avoid wandering through a timeless dimension exacerbated by the hustle of wheat harvest and other continuously flowing summer farm and family tasks and appointments that can easily blend into one big summer blur if not contained. One alert is set for “1 day before” and the second for “1 hour before” to help remind me of daily events.Īnd it’s during this part of the year while conducting my daily morning calendar review, I will also routinely set alarms on my phone to go off approximately 30-minutes prior to any calendar entries that demand me to be at a certain place at a certain time. It’s during this part of the year where I intentionally set two alerts on all of my calendar entries. In reality, I also have to look at my calendar to know what the actual day is. It’s during this time of the year I have to intentionally look at my calendar every morning to identify which kid has a baseball game that evening, if I have a scheduled Zoom call at some point during the day, or if my newspaper column is due. Sprinkle in a variety of summer activities for our kids like Vacation Bible School, baseball games and swim lessons, and you have a swirling vortex of days that leave people like me asking at times, “What day is it?” As a farming family, this begins the busy season of not only harvesting wheat from the fields while racing the summer storms, but also finishing up the planting of our fall crops, and beginning the long, hot summer days of irrigation. Harvest crews are making their way through wheat fields in my part of the world right now. You’ve just crossed over into … the ‘Harvest Zone.’” You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance.

A dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. “You unlock this door with the key of imagination.

The background music at the start of my episode would consist of an odd pattern of guitar plinks and orchestral bursts, and over this hair-raising musical selection would include a Rod Serling-like narration: In cinematic effect, I imagine my story would begin with a black and white tight shot of my eyes opening wide from slumber and darting back and forth in a semi-confused state.
#The harvest tv#
Every year around this time, the world around me has the potential to quickly turn into a continuous swirl that would be perfect for a TV series.
