Scythe & Spade Welcomes Sidnee Hill as Financial Analyst

Scythe & Spade would like to warmly welcome Sidnee Rose Hill to the Scythe & Spade family as our new Financial Analyst. Sidnee will be supporting Scythe & Spade clients both internal and external farmland acquisitions/dispositions real estate activities, due diligence studies, and market research.

Sidnee has worked as an agricultural financial analyst and production ag management consultant for the past 5 years. Through her previous employment with the University of Idaho Extension and her own consulting business, Spade Bit Consulting, she has analyzed 170+ operations in systems as diverse as bison, logging, and freshwater fish farming. She most enjoys being able to translate complex market information and data into easy-to-understand stories and tools.

Sidnee brings to Scythe and Spade a lifetime of experience in beef cattle ranching in the intermountain west. She and her husband have experience raising cattle and working on ranches in Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. She has worked intensively in creating economic and financial models analyzing ranching profitability for both commercial and regenerative operations.

Her diverse background also includes working with municipalities, county governments, and land conservation organizations as a city planner. With this comes a depth of knowledge in land use laws and local government processes.

Sidnee has a M.S. Degree in Agriculture Economics from Purdue University, an MBA from Indiana University Kelley School of Business, and a BS in Agriculture Education from Brigham Young University-Idaho.

With her free time she can always be found outside enjoying the very best of central Idaho hiking, riding horses, and gardening with her three children.