Curt L. Johnston is a native of Colorado and has lived amongst the agriculture community all his life. He graduated from Sterling High School and proceeded on to College at Northeastern JR College and then received a BS degree in Vocational AG at CSU. Curt taught high school agriculture classes for three years prior to his 26 year employment with Farm Credit Services. During his years of raising two children, with his wife Rose, he also operated a small farm and registered cattle operation for 25 years.
Curt has been appraising farms, ranches, dairies, feedlots, agricultural properties, livestock and equipment in Colorado, New Mexico, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Kansas, Montana, Texas, Florida and Nebraska for over 31 years.
Experience includes over 3,100 appraisals; valuations of large dairies in Texas, Florida, Idaho, New Mexico and Colorado. Feedlots, irrigated farmland, dry land ranches in Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Kansas, and Nebraska. Vegetable farms, storage facilities and complex properties, etc. Dealt with all phases of real estate transactions, financing to loan closings, water, easement, machinery, and livestock valuations, city comprehensive development plans, and livestock inventory work, including feedlots etc.
Curt L. Johnston has earned the Accredited Rural Appraiser (ARA) designation which is awarded by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA) to those members who have had years of experience, are technically trained, have passed a rigid examination, and subscribe to a high code of ethics.
Curt’s hobbies have always been horses and cattle and still competes in calf roping and team roping to this day. He enjoys rodeo and its venues and did coach the CSU Rodeo Team for 5 years. Curt has lived in the Greeley and Eaton area of Colorado for 30 years now and enjoys the rural life.