About The Redwood Group
We specialize in feedgrain, feed ingredient, and energy merchandising, commodity risk management services, and freight brokerage.
Leadership Team
Michael Kincaid
Founder and President
Stephen Titus
Executive Vice President
Roger Obrist
Chief Financial Officer
James Shoemaker
Director, Credit and Treasury
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries
THE ROOTS LOGISTICS
The ROOTS Logistics is our multi-modal freight brokerage solution for inland domestic and cross-border transportation. Our ROOTS team offers efficient, affordable, dependable transport service backed by a network of trusted carriers.
RISK CANOPY
Risk Canopy is our energy and agriculture risk management operation, which acts as a physical and financial counterparty for commercial producers and consumers of commodities. We have streamlined the quoting process through our online platform, My Risk Canopy, where counterparties can interface with our trade desk in a very efficient manner.
Culture
Mission
We are a relationship-driven commodity supply chain merchandising company guided by the entrepreneurial spirit of our employees.
Vision
We are an innovator in the commodity origination and merchandising industry focused on relationships and providing a platform for ambitious leaders to succeed.
Values
We value honesty, creativity, performance, relationship building, and risk management.
History
2010: Our company was founded to merchandise ethanol with a small office in the Crossroads neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri.
2012: We relocated to the Kansas City Board of Trade to support our growth.
2012: We entered into a multi-year JV with an international ethanol shipper.
2014: We added our first new product line: natural gas liquids.
2015: We relocated to our current headquarters in Mission, Kansas.
2016: We added our feedgrain merchandising division.
2016: We added our specialty products merchandising group (divested as Stricks Ag).
2016: We entered into a supply and distribution agreement with Mid-West Grain, Ltd. (divested as Stricks Ag).
2017: We bought a 50% interest in Stricks Ag, a Montana pulse processing company.
2017: We acquired Lathrop FSG, a food-grade soybean cleaning, processing, and distribution company.
2018: We entered into a product handling agreement with Agriforce Seed and constructed grain bins and handling infrastructure for specialty crops (divested as Stricks Ag).
2019: We added a feed ingredients division.
2019: We acquired Ceres Commodities to expand our soybean operations internationally and integrated it into Lathrop FSG.
2019: We acquired a book of customers to grow our natural gas liquids business into crude oil and refined products.
2019: We acquired the remaining 50% of Stricks Ag.
2020: We achieved our first fiscal year of $1 billion in sales.
2020: We launched The ROOTS Logistics, LLC freight brokerage.
2021: We acquired a technology stack to support our energy operations which enabled our customers to quote online with our trade desk seamlessly. We rebranded our bilateral OTC operations to Risk Canopy and our new software to My Risk Canopy.
2022: We entered into a long-term specialty milling agreement with Western Foods (divested as Stricks Ag).
2024: Stricks Ag acquired a pulse crop and wheat handling facility in Stanford, MT (divested as Stricks Ag).
2024: We sold Stricks Ag to a public company.
2024: We sold Lathrop FSG to a cooperative.
2025: We launched our technology division, Redwood Technologies.