About Us

Brad Downing, President/CEO & Director of Sales

With a long history of being deeply entrenched within the Agricultural Industry, Brad’s beginning passion for farming began at a very young age. Growing up on his family’s farm, he learned how deep his passion for farming was. Brad’s vision of new ideas, and always wanting to challenge the status quo, led him to be very inquisitive. Wanting to learn more, Brad’s college choice lead him down the path of graduating from Purdue University in 2001, with a B.S in Agribusiness Management and a minor in Biology and Marketing. After Purdue, Brad's career started in the agricultural equipment industry, then, from 2003-2017 he built the foundation of his career in the seed industry.
His last position held was a lead role in Key Account management of progressive farms across the Midwest for a seed company. After Brad & Marsha’s third child was born, they felt that being in the agricultural corporate world was no longer the correct path in their life. Brad left that career and with encouragement from Marsha, they started Cross Creek Ag Solutions in August 2017 with a key focus on wanting to create a long-term family-based company. Thus, helping farm operations make key input decisions that would be surrounded by data integrity innovation transparency education and increased ROI.
Brad & Marsha’s farm, Cross Creek Farms Inc., plays a major role in the data and proving grounds for products Cross Creek Ag Solutions distributes and manufactures. If the products, or the agronomic system, will not produce long-term positive ROI’s on their farm, they won’t suggest for you to spend that investment for your farm.

Marsha Downing, Vice President, Head of Office & Accounting Staff

Marsha graduated from Purdue University in 2001. After a 13-year career in education, Marsha was a stay-at-home mom to Leyton, Lincoln, and London until Cross Creek Ag Solutions started in 2017.
Marsha handles all the finances, billing, inventory, apparel, merchandise, coordination of shipping, and reporting.
She enjoys coaching her kids’ teams, Purdue sports, and spending time with her family.

Kyle Brumley, Agronomic Sales Manager

Kyle joined our team at the beginning of 2024 to help us continue to serve our ever-growing customer base, creating personalized plans to help create the most sustainable farms with the most yield and best ROI. Kyle is a graduate of Purdue University and comes to us with an extensive background in agriculture and over fifteen years of experience in the seed and biological nutrition industry.
He is married to his wife Sarah and enjoys spending time with her and their two daughters when he’s not out in the field. His favorite thing about joining the Cross Creek Ag team is working with people who care about what they do and know how to have fun while they’re doing it.

Spencer Day, Operational Business Manager

Spencer serves a multitude of needs from accounting and organizing to customer relations and general operations, lending a hand in both the office and the field. He hopes to be able to make customers feel like they are part of the Cross Creek family and friends. Spencer believes that commitment, respect, and engagement from employees to our customer’s personnel and property is what drives quality service.
Spencer’s favorite part of the Cross Creek Ag team is the people. He has developed deep and meaningful relationships with all of our staff. We all view one another as family, and that is something special. It’s a place he enjoys working at, surrounded by people he enjoys working with. Cross Creek has become his home away from home, and a place he feels confident and comfortable growing and evolving.

Jason Downing, Inventory & Spreading Manager/ Farm Specialist

Starting at Cross Creek Ag Solutions in December of 2018, Jason assumed the role of Operations and Logistics Coordinator where he runs the day-to-day aspects of the seed, biological, litter spreading, and farm entities. He facilitates and coordinates all incoming deliveries from our vendors to our warehouses on and off-site as well as outbound deliveries to our customers for seed and biologicals. Jason keeps track of all inventory for seed and biologicals on a daily basis. For the litter spreading business, he is in contact with our customers for the amount they want to be spread on their fields as well as creating maps for the trucking company to deliver materials and for our employees to be able to see property boundaries and tons per acre. For the farm, he is in contact with our employees on a daily basis to determine what needs to be accomplished to help our farm grow and create the best research and development for our customers to visually see.
He began working at Cross Creek Ag Solutions after working on his family's farm for eight years, where he grew up and helped a lot in his younger years. Having an agricultural upbringing helped with the knowledge of what our customers were in need of. Prior to that, he worked for Advantage Lawn and Landscape and The Legends Golf Course where he was a PGA Professional in the Indiana Section. Jason graduated from The Golf Academy of the Carolinas in 2007 with a degree in Applied Business.
Jason is married to Pam Downing and they have two daughters, Annika and Brenna. He enjoys spending time with his family and coaching my daughters’ teams as well as playing all sports, especially golf and softball. He also enjoys snowmobiling trips and going anywhere with a beach and water.

Gabe Hudson, Farm & Facilities Manager

Gabe grew up in Miami County along with his two younger brothers on a farm. He graduated from Maconaquah High School in 2002 where he played baseball and tennis all four years. After graduation, he attended Indiana University Kokomo where he studied criminal justice & criminology and graduated with his associate’s degree in criminal justice. After graduation, his love for farming took him in a different direction and led him into the agriculture industry. He now lives in Howard County with his wife, Michelle, and their three daughters, Ayla, Adelle, and Aubrie.
He has spent extensive time working on farms and conditioning seed throughout his time in the workforce starting at the age of 15. He enjoys serving at his church, helping others, hunting, fishing, riding ATVs, and snowmobiling. He enjoys the outdoors with this family and they spend their spare time outside enjoying the gifts God has blessed them with.

Jay Echelbarger, Transportation & Logistics Associate

Jay was born and raised in a farming family. His Grandfather had a small dairy and hog farm of which Jay was a part of growing up. Upon high school graduation, Jay went to work at a farm implement store in Greentown where he was a mechanic for 12 yrs. He left Greentown Equipment in 1991 to work for Top Ag where he had a petroleum delivery route in Howard County. From 1999-2020 he worked for General Motors. Upon retirement in February 2020, Jay began working with Cross Creek Ag Solutions as Transportation & Logistics Associate. He brings with him a CDL driver’s license, a wealth of knowledge and experience in farming and the mechanical field, as well as life experience in general.