Beyond dry bulk transport
WHERE WE ARE TODAY
Hilmer & Eileen Pfister were able to purchase an additional farm adjacent to the original farm in 1948. They continued farming the land and milking cows. Their son Donald and his wife Lynn formed a partnership with them in 1977, milking between 60 - 100 cows and eventually purchased the farming operation in 1993.
John Pfister and his wife Carolina Kolbe established Pfister Farms in 1855 with a 110 acre family farm on County Highway T in Charlestown, Wisconsin. John had emigrated from Bavaria, Germany in 1843 and moved to Charlestown in 1852. John Pfister’s son, Lawrence, and his wife, Victoria took over the farm until their son, Hilmer and his wife Eileen bought it in 1947. Pictured here is John Pfister (seated), Lawrence Pfister (left), and Andrew Pfister (right).
how it started
Shortly after Lynn passed away in 2007, Donald and Lynn's son Mike came back to the business and started running the trucking company in 2008. Eventually re-branding to form Pfister Bulk Transport and started the pneumatic division in 2016. Don and Mike still operate the cash cropping business together. Mike is fifth generation and pictured here with his wife Angie, and their kids, Lauryn, Kailey, and Logan. The Pfister family farm celebrated their sesquicentennial (150 year) anniversary in 2005.
Family is our business
Donald and Lynn grew the operation to include over 500 beef cattle in the early 90's, an expanded milking herd, and erected a grain dryer and storage bins to facilitate their growing cash cropping operation. The first truck, a 1985 model 362 Peterbilt was purchased in 1989 along with a hopper bottom trailer, and the rest as they say, is history.