About Prairie Stone.
Prairie Stone was started in 2019 by Jeff Hoeft, a local farmer, when he saw a need in the Minn-Dak (Minnesota, North and South Dakota) area for a cutting edge and technology driven countertop shop. Prairie Stone uses top of the line technology and premium stone that works for every home and for every project. As a small, family-owned shop, they are able to serve the community with quality products and great lead times. Jeff lives in Wahpeton with his wife and 3 daughters and continues to farm in the area.
(Photo: Jeff Hoeft, his wife, Jennifer, and daughters — twins, Gracie and Claire, both 19, and Gillian, 12, as well as Caleb Bellig, Wahpeton, who is working with the family’s farm and its stone countertop business — Prairie Stone LLC. Photo taken July 1, 2020, at Wahpeton, N.D. Mikkel Pates / Agweek )
In the News.
Video from Agweek about Prairie Stone
From the Fargo Forum:
“ Jeff Hoeft, of Wahpeton, N.D., is performing the ultimate “counter-move” to the vagaries of agricultural economics. He’s transforming part of his farm shop at New Effington, S.D., into Prairie Stone LLC, a stone countertop manufacturing business.
“I’m thinking the way this is probably going to work out, this will be the main business and farming will be the companion, or ‘go-along’ thing," said Hoeft, in an interview at the shop. The company started a Facebook page that noted the official opening of the company was July 13, but in August, it is intensifying marketing in a 100-mile radius.
Hoeft, 50, grew up on a farm west of Hankinson, N.D., and his career has been shaped by changes in the farm economy. ”