Greater Louisville Agribusiness
of the Year Award
33nd Annual | Presented at the
Farm City Celebration Luncheon
2025 Agribusiness of the Year Award Nominations Now Open
The Agribusiness Industry Network, Inc. is accepting nominations for the 2025 Agribusiness of the Year Award, scheduled to be presented on Friday, November 15th, at the Annual Farm City Luncheon in Louisville.
This award, seeks to recognize an agribusiness located in or serving the counties of the GLI Greater Louisville Region for Economic Development. In Kentucky those counties include: Bullitt, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and Trimble; and in Indiana include: Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington, and Scott.
Judging consideration is based on financial growth, overall contribution to our community, employee relations, and creation of better farm-city understanding.
We are asking members of the Agribusiness Industry Network to nominate a deserving agribusiness for consideration in this year’s judging process. Your input is critical to ensure that our committee does not overlook worthy nominees.
Please notify either me or Laura Berry with any nominations by June 1st. We will need the name of the company, a contact name if you have one and a phone number.
Information on this year’s Farm City Luncheon is available on our website . If you have any questions, please contact me at 502-228-8725 or by email at mikefeldhaus2@gmail.com. Laura Berry can be reached at 502-367-5196 or laura.berry@kyvenues.com. Thank you for your assistance with this nominating process.
Sincerely,
Mike Feldhaus
Chairperson of the Agribusiness of the Year Award
Dan Cristiani Excavating Co. Inc
2024 Agribusiness of the Year
Dan Cristiani Excavating got its start in 1971 when Dan Cristiani founded a new earth-moving and truck transport company in Southern Indiana with just one small farm tractor and a dump truck.
Now in the company’s 53rd year, he and his management team oversee a sprawling enterprise across Southern Indiana and Central Kentucky that includes 22 separate company titles, 250 employees and more than 150 pieces of large construction and trucking equipment.
The firm recently moved into a new $20 million, 44,000 square foot headquarters facility in Charlestown, Indiana, which gave them expanded office space in addition to state-of-the-art service bays for maintenance and service work on their equipment.
Cristiani has been a long-time fixture at the Kentucky State Fair Board property in Louisville. Since 1980 the firm has deployed equipment and personnel to handle set-up and removal of material into and out of Freedom Hall, including dirt for the annual Tractor Pull, bedding for the State Fair livestock and Horse Show, as well as The North American International Livestock Exposition and playing surfaces for athletic events.