Put your creativity to work
get noticed by brands
These big brands (and many smaller ones) purchase from our site.
why real ag stock?
earn extra income
You’ve got gorgeous photos and videos dying on your hard drive. Let’s put them to work earning top-tier commission.
Plus, you’ll be instantly notified of customer photo requests and have access to our shot list compiled from 10 years of experience as a commercial ag photographer and 6 years of ag stock website data.
risk free opportunity
Sounds gimmicky, but we mean it.
We’ll upload, categorize, and keyword all of your content. All you have to do is drag and drop your files into our portal.
You own your content and can continue to sell it through your own channels.
AND you can pull your work off the site at any time.
Grow your skills and business
Join our community of 200+ farm and ranch photographers just like you.
You’ll get access to our Facebook group, where we answer questions, give and receive feedback, and celebrate wins.
We’ll also send custom photo shoot opportunities your way.
meet erin
founder/owner/photographer
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I grew up on a corn and soybean farm in central Illinois. My mom was out in the field as much as my dad, so we grew up eating, sleeping, and doing homework in tractor/combine cabs.
It was an incredible childhood.
At 19, my blood boiled when I read negative press about the ag industry. I started creating content, taking photos, and overlaying ag facts and quotes on top. It was revolutionary at a time when social media was primarily text. ;) That content went viral on my Facebook page “Keeping it Real: Through the Lens of a Farm Girl”.
It launched my career.
I spent my early 20s traveling across the country photographing farmers and ranchers for agencies, brands, and other ag organizations. Had the time of my life.
In my late 20s, after having my first child, I launched my own stock photo site to sell the thousands of photos just sitting on my hard drive. I knew the industry was desperate for good stock imagery. I wanted to put my images to work. And with a growing family, I didn’t want to spend as much time on the road.
In the last 7 years, that little stock site has grown into Real Ag Stock. It has been an absolute joy to view life through our photographers’ lenses, to watch them grow, celebrate wins, and help them make a little extra money along the way.
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As a photographer myself, I know how much our photos and videos mean to us. We pour our creative, emotional, and physical energy into making them.
I see you, your life, and your heart in your work and promise to care for it like my own.
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Brands Worked For: Oscar Mayer, US Cotton Trust Protocol, Indigo Ag, Elanco, LG Seeds, Friona Industries, Cactus Feeders, Compeer Financial, Illinois Soybean Association, NuTech Seed, Wisconsin Corn Growers, Farm Credit Illinois, Ag Drainage Inc, Wyffels Hybrids & more
Featured By: USA Today, Monsanto, FFA New Horizons, Farm Journal, Prairie Farmer, Ohio Ag Net, Progressive Dairy & more
Years Selling Stock: 9
Years Photographing Commercial Ag Clients: 12
Years Photographing Portraits: 15
From our photographers
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shelby chesnut
COLORADO
As a contributor to Real Ag Stock, our photos and story have been able to live on past a hard drive collecting dust on the desk. It has also added a layer of possible additional income to each photo/video session I offer within my business.
Erin goes above and beyond by offering her contributors opportunities through getting to know and nailing down each photographer’s strengths. For example, Erin has helped me develop relationships specifically with clients looking for drone photography and videography that has turned into more than just buying photos from the site but also contracted photoshoots.
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Kathaleen book
OHIO
When Real Ag Stock started and I became one of the first contributors, I was still a college student and Erin and the other contributors have all helped me grow personally and professionally. Becoming a contributor is a great way to build connections with like-minded professionals from all across North America.
Erin has continually worked from day one to put contributors first and listen to our feedback to improve both ease of submitting and purchasing of photos. Being able to share my images with the world and knowing they are helping tell the story of agriculture is one of the most rewarding aspects of this platform.
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julie Laird
OREGON
Being a contributor to Real Ag Stock is an incredible experience! Not only is it fascinating to view the diverse and authentic images of other contributors, but it has also challenged me to capture aspects of our daily operation in new and creative ways.
Erin is wonderful to work with and makes the process of uploading photographs so easy and efficient. She is quick to share information from her experience as an accomplished photographer and businesswoman. We live in a very remote part of SE Oregon, and being part of Real Ag Stock is a wonderful opportunity to be connected to a talented group of photographers with a genuine passion for agriculture!
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LIZ HARDER
ILLINOIS
The selection of authentic ag imagery on typical stock sites always frustrated me as a farm girl and professional communicator. So I started following my family around, taking photos and videos of them at work whenever my company needed imagery we didn’t have on-hand.
Contributing to Real Ag Stock lights a fire in me because I know my work helps ag companies better represent today‘s farmers and ranchers. Because this unique way of life is best captured by those who live it - not models posing in waders in a wheat field.
FAQs
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Submit your photos through an upload link.
We’ll handle resizing, watermarking, uploading, and adding your content to the site.
You’ll be paid by the 15th of every month for content downloaded the previous month or at the end of each subscription period.
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We split gross revenue 50/50 with contributors, meaning you get 50% of the purchase price of your content. The other 50% pays for site expenses, fees, and time needed to organize, upload, keyword, and categorize your images.
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Yes, of course. You can sell prints, products, and your own digitals. The only restriction is you cannot submit these photos to other stock sites.
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You can upload through the portal anytime. Most contributors send new photos as they have them.
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There is no minimum or maximum, but we prefer batches of at least 50.
Become a contributor
Become a contributor
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out! I'm happy to talk through anything you're not sure about.
If you’re ready to get your photos on the site, please apply below.
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