
After a career that ran from a Wisconsin malt house to soybean strategy and seed-treatment sales, the Iowa founder is betting that one of farming’s oldest decisions should happen seconds before the seed meets soil.

A summer job in construction taught Andy Priestley the value of unglamorous work. He carried that lesson into sports technology, turning camp forms into a network that now sits near the front door of college recruiting.

A Virginia administrator came to Iowa with a family, a founder's itch and one stubborn diagram: put residents and frontline staff at the top. A decade later, that upside-down chart remains a compact explanation of how Ted LeNeave wants Accura to work.