Mark Chadwick
Lilian Mocelin
Fredrick de Mare
Lana Gladstein
Jennifer Burdman
Mead Hardwick
Mead Hardwick is a Partner at Hardwick Planting Company. Hardwick Planting Company produces 8,000 acres of cotton, corn, soybeans, grain sorghum and wheat.
Mead’s focus at Hardwick Planting Company is strategic and long-range planning, financial planning, cost of production analysis, lending needs, equipment acquisition strategy, development and implementation of precision agriculture systems and precision terrain designs. Mead has completed The Executive Program for Agriculture Producers (TEPAP), is a Certified Louisiana Master Farmer and was awarded the 2020 Louisiana Master Farmer of the year. Mead serves on the board directors for Cotton Incorporated, EWR, Inc., Tensas Co-op Gin, Tensas State Bank and the Louisiana Agricultural Corporation, LLC Self Insured Fund (LAC – SIF).
Prior to his role at Hardwick Planting Company, Mead obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in Finance from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, in 2004. From 2004 – 2015, Mead worked for Dallas based corporate real estate firm Fischer & Company specializing in industrial real estate development for various FedEx divisions in the U.S. and Canada. After living in Dallas, TX for 14 years, Mead and his family returned to their family farm in 2014.
Mead has been married to his wife Felicia for 16 years. They have three children – Will (13), Caleb (11) and Vivian (6). Mead, Felicia, and their children live in Monroe, Louisiana.
Cannon Michael
