Real Estate Associates
Ross Perkins
Real Estate Broker
Phone: (217)249-4115
Email: Ross Perkins
Ross Perkins, AFM, based out of First Mid’s Bloomington office, buys/sells farmland for clients in Illinois and Arkansas while also being a full-time farmer, and currently resides in the Gibson City area. Ross has been a top real estate producer for First Mid when he was a full-time farm manager for First Mid Ag Services. In 2014 he earned his degree at Illinois State University with a B.S. in Agribusiness. After college, Ross worked for Soy Capital Ag Services (acquired by First Mid in 2018) where he obtained an Illinois Real Estate Broker’s license, an Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) designation, and serves as the Arkansas Real Estate Principal Broker for First Mid.
Garrett Schoenholz
Real Estate Broker
Phone: (815)757-7721
Email: Garrett Schoenholz
Licensed in 2006 as an Illinois Real Estate Broker Garrett has a passion for agricultural land sales. Garrett was raised on a grain farm in north central Illinois. He has 11 years of experience in production agriculture. Garrett actively farms with his brother, and is a Seed Advisor for Syngenta Seeds. He is also a member of the Lee County Farm Bureau, and Dekalb County Corn Growers Association. Garrett lives in rural Paw Paw, IL with his wife Ashli and daughter.
Chad Hoke
Real Estate Broker
Phone: (309) 531-1115
Email: Chad Hoke
Chad is one of our top producing Licensed Real Estate Brokers (sales and acquisitions) in Illinois. Chad joined First Mid Ag Services through the acquisition of Soy Capital Ag Services in 2018, and has over 35 years of experience in agricultural management and real estate. He is a 1987 graduate of the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Agricultural Economics, and continues to hold the title of Accredited Farm Manager from the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Chad and the Bloomington farm management staff earned the nationally recognized ASFMRA Farm Manager of the Year Award in 2001. In 2022, Chad transitioned from farm management to focusing exclusively on farmland real estate sales and acquisitions while also assisting with the family farming operation west of Clinton, Illinois.
Steve Jacob
Real Estate Brokerage – Kankakee
Phone: (815) 936-8980
Email: Steve Jacob
Steve, a 1972 graduate of Illinois State University with a degree in agricultural education, is licensed for real estate sales and brokerage in Illinois and Indiana. He has served this organization and predecessors in farm management for more than 40 years, including experience in agribusiness and farm lending. Steve also has practical experience in farming, and in fertilizer sales and service. Steve oversees all farm real estate activities in northern Illinois as manager of Ag Services’ regional Kankakee office location.
Don McCabe
Real Estate Brokerage – Kankakee
Phone: (815) 936-8979
Email: Don McCabe
Don is a contracted consultant with First Mid Ag Services. He was President of the organization’s predecessors First of America and Soy Capital Ag Services (1986-2014) and continues to work with special assignments and as a consulting advisor with the business. Don has broad experience in strategic and financial planning, banking, trust administration, and finance, as well as in related farm and agricultural business management.
Don earned his Accredited Farm Manager (AFM) designation in 1975, and degrees at the University of Illinois – B.S., 1969, in agricultural economics and communication, and MBA, 1977. He is an Illinois Real Estate Broker. Don has served in a number of roles with the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA), including President of the Illinois chapter and national Board of Directors (2004), and General Chair of the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Manager & Rural Appraisers’ (ISPFMRA) annual Illinois Farmland Values and Lease Trends project (2010-2014). Don was the recipient of the ISPFMRA Professional Hall of Fame award for 2013 for significant contributions to both the organization and Illinois agriculture.
In addition to his current work with First Mid Ag Services, Don manages his family farmland and financial investment business with land in Illinois’ Livingston and Kankakee counties.
Dan Moehring
Real Estate Brokerage – Decatur
Email: Dan Moehring
Dan received a B.S. in farm business management from Western Illinois University in 1976. He has worked for Soy Capital Ag Services and predecessors for more than 40 years prior to the acquisition by First Mid Ag Services in 2018. He is a licensed Illinois Real Estate Broker. Dan operates his own farm and seed corn production operation while working part time for Ag Services.
