Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, Cum Laude and Honors Scholar
College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, June, 1970

Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering
Graduate School, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Jan., 1971

Chief Engineer, Design Class. Designed and built experimental combine for harvesting of small test plots. Special project for master's degree was writing a computer program for the design and selection of v-belt drives.

First Financial Group, Inc. - System Operator for Carrollton Internet Service

April, 1996 - Present.  System Operator for Carrollton Internet Service, a local Internet service provider for Carrollton, Missouri. Local access is provided as well as web page design and business advertising assistance.

Aug. 1990 to Present.  First Financial Group of Carrollton, Inc. provides trust & farm management with trust assets of approximately three million dollars, custom computer services, and business financial planning. Business plans have been completed for farm restructuring, farm expansion, commercial printing businesses, and golf course development. Missouri Enterprise Zone benefit applications and Employee Stock Ownership Plans are also completed for clients.

1969 to Present, Swearingin Bros. Farms, Inc.(incorporated Feb. 1974), Carrollton, MO. (livestock and grain farm). Partner in management and operation of 4000+ acres of row crops and 3000+ head of hogs produced yearly. Directly responsible for all accounting including budgeting, profit/loss analysis, corporate records, and occasional tractor or truck driver. Listed in Farm Futures Top 100 for the past eight years. Production Manager is brother Charles Swearingin. Swearingin Bros. Farms, Inc. was reorganized in 2004 into two corporations, Swearingin Bros. Farms, Inc. and Swearingin Enterprises, Inc.

Nov. 1979 to Present.  Designed and patented a concrete hog feeder (January 26, 1982; #4,312,298) which was basis for start-up of company. Later designed new concrete hog waterer, sow feeder, and totally concrete hog feeder. Hired and supervised twelve employees and directed the establishment of over 100 dealers in fifteen states. Wrote computer software to track plant employees production and maintain inventory status. Designed and received patent (April 2, 1985; #4,508,061) for nipple hog feeder which places feed directly into the mouth of a hog and is controlled and monitored by a computer. The concrete business was sold in 1984. Swearingin Enterprises, Inc. was formed from the reorganization of Swearingin Bros. Farms, Inc. and the subsequent merger with Swearingin Industries, Inc.in 2004.

Sept. 2005 to Present.  Prairie Pride, Inc., is a New Generation Coop that raised over $37 million of investor equity to build a $89 million soybean oil extraction and biodiesel refinery plant near Deerfield, MO that will process 21 million bushels of soybeans and produce 30 million gallons of biodiesel each year. Construction is scheduled to begin in June, 2006.

Sept. 2002 to Present.  Founding member of steering committee that later became Mid-Missouri Energy, Inc., a New Generation Coop that raised over $22 million of investor equity to build a $60 million ethanol plant in Malta Bend, MO that produces over 40 million gallons of ethanol each year.

Dec. 1981 to Dec. 1990.  Served on Board of Directors of MFBF and affiliated companies, which include MFB Life Insurance, with over $1 Billion of insurance in force, and MFB Town & Country Insurance, a major property and casualty company in Missouri. Represented fifteen counties in north central Missouri.

Dec. 1985 to Dec. 1990.  Interstate Producers Livestock Association, Peoria, IL, member of Board of Directors.

Civic and Professional: Associate Member of American Society of Agricultural Engineers for 25 years; Carroll County Farm Bureau, (Offices held: Vice-president, Legislative Chairman, Young Farmer Chairman); Member, UMC Commercial Ag Advisory Committee; Carroll County Pork Producers; Carroll Baptist Association, Moderator, Treasurer; Joint Mission Board of Carroll-Saline Baptist Associations, Treasurer,President; First Baptist Church, Carrollton, Sunday School teacher, deacon, & assistant church moderator; Carrollton Area Chamber of Commerce, Carrollton Lions Club (past president); Carroll County Memorial Hospital (past Board of Directors/President).

Contact Information

11 North Folger Street
Carrollton, MO 64633
(660) 542-3002 (phone)
(660) 542-3003 (fax)
david@carolnet.com