Mark Akin
With over 30 years of experience in the Ag Industry, Mark Akin has spent most of his life working in and around cattle and farming. He was born in Elkhart, Indiana and graduated high school in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. After graduation, he moved and worked for R+J Ranch in Briggs, Texas, the top Registered Angus herd of the 1980’s. Here he assisted in pioneering embryo work, showed National Champion Angus Bulls and Females and where record setting annual sales began.
By 1990, Mark Akin had his first opportunity to fully manage an Angus Herd at 3 Bar D Ranch in Newberry, Florida. Here he was met with the necessary adaptation of a new environment and geography for Angus genetics to excel and benefit not only for the local customer, but for the national customers as well. In 1992, an opportunity was presented to move back to the mid-west and become a Registered Herd Manager for a start-up Angus operation in Iberia, Missouri. This new and upcoming operation was Circle A Ranch.
Initially, his duties were to oversee the Registered Herd and to promote the brand by showing cattle on both the local and national levels. By the fall of 1993, he was promoted to General Manager and hosted their First Production Sale that November. It was a success. For 25 years, Mark’s role was to oversee the day-to-day operations, the development of all acquired properties and the genetic advances for the expansion and innovation of Circle A Ranches. By 2000, he had helped develop 4 ranch locations from southwest Missouri to southern Iowa with approximately 34,000 acres in total.
Most recently, Mark Akin has devoted his time to selling real estate and helping cattle producers locally while developing their family’s own ranch, Diamond A Ranch, LLC in Montevallo, Missouri. Mark has successfully closed on small and large tracts alike, specialized in cattle ranches, row crop farms, and hunting properties.
