Mark R. Schmitt

President D&B Supply

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Mark R. Schmitt is President of D&B Supply, the farm, ranch and home retailer that began as a single farming wholesale store in Caldwell, Idaho in 1959 and has grown into a chain of stores across Idaho and Oregon. The business serves the agricultural West in the broad sense: commercial farmers and ranchers, owners of small acreages, tradespeople, pet owners and gardeners. Under his leadership the company replaced its long-standing Caldwell store with a much larger facility at North Ranch Business Park, which opened in February 2023.

Career Highlights

• President of D&B Supply, a regional farm and ranch retailer with stores in Idaho and Oregon.
• Quoted as President in the September 2022 groundbreaking announcement for the company’s 109,000-square-foot facility at North Ranch Business Park in Caldwell.
• The new Caldwell store at 620 Smeed Parkway opened in February 2023, replacing the Cleveland Boulevard location the company had operated for 64 years.

Professional Journey

D&B Supply traces its origins to 1959, when two founders the company knows as Dutch and Bud opened a farming wholesale store in Caldwell, Idaho, then a rural agricultural town. The company describes that first store as a one-stop shop for everything needed to keep a farm running, and over the following decades it expanded into a chain of stores in Idaho and Oregon.

Schmitt leads the company as President. In D&B Supply’s own statement of its ethos, he defines service as “providing something meaningful and useful to our customer”, whether that means a gardening tip or walking a customer across the store, and he describes the company’s customers as ranging from ranchers with hundreds of head of cattle to suburban households with a single dog.

The most visible project of his tenure is the relocation of the company’s home-town store. In the September 2022 announcement of the groundbreaking at North Ranch Business Park, developed by Ball Ventures Ahlquist, he said: “D&B was born and raised in Caldwell. We’ve been serving our customers and the community here since our first store was opened in 1959.” The 109,000-square-foot store at 620 Smeed Parkway opened in February 2023, replacing the Cleveland Boulevard store after 64 years.

The company is headquartered in Caldwell. No source reviewed establishes when he became President or what roles he held before.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or dated press source.