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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: Ralph Lagergren

From rotors to Rageball 5. This unusual phrase describes the diverse types of new products which one remarkable rural entrepreneur has worked on developing.

Lincoln County, Kansas native Ralph Lagergren has developed numerous products over his career.
Lincoln County, Kansas native Ralph Lagergren has developed numerous products over his career.

Ralph Lagergren is an entrepreneur and new product developer who grew up in Lincoln County, Kansas. One of his friends growing up was his cousin Mark Underwood. They spent lots of their summers together on the Underwood family farm, located two counties north.

Ralph went to K-State and then into a sales and marketing career that took him around the country. He did well in the corporate world but became bored. He was working for a pharmaceutical company in Fort Worth when he recalled a conversation he had previously had with his cousin Mark back in Kansas.

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