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Agriculture and Mining Leads: Where to Find Owners and Buyers

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LeadQuasar's Agriculture & Mining category holds 61,382 person-level contacts, and every one has an email address, a phone number, a website and a named person. Owners and presidents are the two biggest title groups, with 8,026 and 7,345 records. The category combines two very different kinds of business, so the first job is to decide which half you are selling to.

One category, two industries

Farming and extraction share a category because both work the land, but they buy differently. A grain operation or produce grower worries about seed, equipment, weather and the price at harvest. A quarry or mining company worries about heavy equipment uptime, safety compliance, fuel and hauling. A crop-insurance pitch sent to a gravel pit, or a conveyor-parts pitch sent to an orchard, is wasted.

The category does not split the two for you. Every record here has a website, so use it. Company names help too: words like farms, ranch, grain, seed, dairy or orchard point one way; mining, minerals, aggregates, quarry, sand and gravel point the other. Sort a small batch by hand before you write a single message, and you will know which half dominates the area you are working.

Who holds the budget

The ten most common titles:

Title Contacts
Owner 8,026
President 7,345
Manager 2,085
Chief Executive Officer 1,971
Vice President 1,473
Marketing Manager 1,434
Chief Operating Officer 1,035
Operations Manager 762
Marketing Director 625
General Manager 597

Owners and presidents dominate, which fits an industry full of family-run operations where one person decides on equipment, land, insurance and lenders. The general managers and operations managers run the site. They know what breaks and what costs money, and they are often the fastest route to a real conversation, even when the owner signs.

The marketing titles (Marketing Manager 1,434, Marketing Director 625) are most likely at larger agribusiness and supply companies. They are the right audience for packaging, branding, trade-show and digital services, not for equipment.

Where the records cluster

State Contacts
California 6,765
Texas 3,530
New York 3,440
Illinois 3,380
Florida 3,293
Ohio 2,827

Missouri (2,165), Colorado (2,055), Pennsylvania (1,944) and Michigan (1,831) come next, and every state-level region has its own page.

The city list is not what you would expect from farms, which tells you something about the data. The largest clusters are Saint Louis (1,273) and New York (1,197), followed by Houston (689). Those read as headquarters cities: agribusiness, commodity and resource companies tend to run corporate offices there, not fields. Then come smaller places with a clear agricultural base, such as Marysville, Ohio (593), Bloomington, Illinois (510) and Decatur, Illinois (283).

That gives you two different lists in one. The headquarters cities suit enterprise sales, where you reach a VP or marketing lead at a large company. The smaller towns suit selling to operators, where the owner answers the phone.

Timing around the season

Agriculture runs on a calendar that does not care about your quarter. During planting and harvest, owners are in the field from first light and will not take a sales call. The quieter months after harvest are when they review equipment, renew insurance, meet lenders and plan next year's inputs. That is your window.

Mining is steadier through the year, but it has its own rhythm: planned maintenance shutdowns, permit renewals and safety audits. Ask when the next shutdown or renewal is, and put your follow-up before it.

Picking the channel

With email and phone on every record, you can choose freely. A few things that tend to hold:

  • Email for headquarters contacts. Presidents and marketing leads at larger firms work from a desk and expect email.
  • Phone for operators. An owner running a farm or quarry reads email late at night, if at all. A short call at a sensible hour, followed by an email with the details, works better.
  • Lead with the problem. Downtime, input costs, compliance deadlines and cash flow between harvests are the pains. Name one.

Keep messages plain and specific, and follow CAN-SPAM and any state rules that apply. Our cold email guide covers the structure.

Quality and access

The list is almost entirely VERIFIED: 61,328 records, with 54 STANDARD. Every record shows a quality score and tier before you unlock it.

Browse agriculture and mining leads by state and city for free. A free account unlocks 50 contacts a day with no card, enough to test a message in one region. When you are ready to work a whole state, go unlimited for $3.99/month and export to CSV. For help defining the segment first, see how to create an ideal customer profile.

Frequently asked questions

How many agriculture and mining contacts are there?

The category has 61,382 contacts. All of them include an email, a phone number, a website and a person's name, and 61,328 are in the VERIFIED tier.

Can I get only farms, or only mining companies?

The category holds both and does not split them. Filter by state and city, then use company names and websites to sort farms from mines before you start outreach.

Who is the decision-maker at these companies?

Usually the owner or president. Those two titles account for 8,026 and 7,345 records. At larger companies, vice presidents (1,473) and chief operating officers (1,035) are also in the data.

Why are there so many records in Saint Louis and New York?

They look like headquarters cities. Saint Louis has 1,273 contacts and New York 1,197, which points to corporate offices of agribusiness and resource companies rather than farms or mine sites. Check the company website to confirm before you pitch.


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