Jonah Kolb, AFM, President
Jonah leads the day-to-day operations of Moore & Warner Ag Group and works with private and institutional investors to build and manage direct farmland portfolios. He also advises start-ups, corporations, and investment funds pursuing opportunities in production agriculture and agribusiness.
Jonah has held positions in agribusiness, consulting, private equity and finance, including at Cargill and the global investment firm D. E. Shaw & Co in New York.
Jonah holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was an Austin Scholar, and he graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College, where he was a Henry David Thoreau and Morris K. Udall Scholar.
Jonah is an Accredited Farm Manager and serves as Designated Managing Broker for Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC. He holds brokerage licenses in Illinois and Iowa.
Jonah can be reached at 217-935-9799.
V. Ross Albert, AFM, Farm Manager & Broker
Ross Albert is a graduate of Illinois State University with a bachelor's degree in Agri-Business. He has been licensed in Illinois as a Real Estate Broker since 2013. Ross performs real estate brokerage (sales and acquisitions) and farm management services for Illinois landowners. Ross is an accredited member of the American & Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers & Rural Appraisers. Prior to farm management he held roles in agronomic, commodity, and farm finance consulting.
Ross and his wife are first generation farmers and landowners. He has a passion for all things farmland. Ross’s experiences on the farm and in the agriculture industry have provided him with a unique perspective to farm management and brokerage. He and his wife, Kathleen, and their four children live in rural Heyworth, IL.
Ross can be reached at 309-261-2230.
Haley Pyatt, Farm Manager & Broker
Haley Pyatt is a graduate of Millikin University where she earned a bachelor’s degree focused on business and communications.
Haley was raised on a grain and livestock farm near Warrensburg, IL. She brings with her over a decade of grain industry experience, starting as a Grain Originator for Topflight Grain Cooperative and later as a Grain Merchandiser for Clarkson Grain Company, Inc.
Haley serves as a Farm Manager and Broker at Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC.
Haley can be reached at 217-493-3621
Jean Davison, Office Manager
Jean Davison joined the Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC team in 2023. She provides a wide range of administrative support with more than 20 years of experience. She has agriculture experience from her 5 years of employment with Heartland Ag Group, where she provided support for real estate, farm management, and appraisal services, as well as designing company media materials.
Pam Gilmore, Administrative Assistant
Pam Gilmore joined the Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC team in 2022. She brings agriculture experience from her 23 years of employment with Monsanto and Bayer, where she held various positions throughout the years. While working for Monsanto, Pam attended McKendree University in Lebanon, IL, graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Pam retired from Bayer in 2021 and moved to Clinton in October of 2022 to be near family. She works part time for Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC handling administrative responsibilities.
Kraig McMath, Facilities and Administration
Kraig joined Moore & Warner Farm Real Estate, LLC after a 40-year career at Baum Chevrolet in Clinton, IL. Kraig supports Moore & Warner’s office staff and farm managers with upkeep, maintenance, and repair projects across numerous properties. Kraig’s wealth of mechanical knowledge is an asset in servicing a wide-ranging fleet of vehicles and equipment.
John Warner, IV In Memoriam
John Warner IV was a 5th generation landowner, businessman, conservationist, and philanthropist who stewarded the legacy and promise of C. H. Moore and American agriculture until his death in 2023.
John was born and raised in the farming community of Clinton. He graduated from The Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH and from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
John’s professional career began at The John Warner Bank of Clinton, Illinois – the fifth generation to join the family business. He started in the bookkeeping department and working up through the ranks, eventually served as Chairman and CEO for nearly a decade. John, along with Elizabeth O’Herin, served as the last managing trustees of the C. H. Moore Trust Estate until the Trust’s termination in 1996.
Among his many civic pursuits, John was a Trustee of Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, and had been a member of the Agricultural Economics Advisory Council of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. He was instrumental in establishing an Environmental Studies course at The Phillips Exeter Academy and served as one of its instructors.
John carried an important landowning and farm management legacy into today’s Moore & Warner, where he served as president for nearly 20 years. John is best remembered for his fairmindedness and wide-ranging generosity.