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Hope Pjesky is a farmer/rancher in northern Oklahoma, USA. She raises beef cattle and grows wheat. Hope wants all farmers to have better lives! She believes that farmers everywhere have a lot in common and supports all farmers. No matter what country they are from, no matter what size their farm is, no matter what they produce, no matter what production practices they use, Hope wants all farmers to be productive and have a good life.

Bill Kirk is the CEO and Co-founder of Weather Trends International. He has 26-years experience with a contagious passion for applying year-ahead business weather guidance and predictive analytics to help Fortune 1,000 companies and farmers everywhere achieve better business in any weather. To date, over $1 Billion in ROIs have been achieved for WTI’s weather savvy clients. This is the second company Bill has founded with the first selling for a 28X return on investment in 3 years. Bill has raised $6.8 million in venture capital from Kodiak Venture Partners, Trestle Ventures, and Innovation Capital. Bill served as a Captain in the U. S. Air Force and worked with NASA and the Space Shuttle Columbia Ferry Flights, briefed 1000’s of F-16 fighter missions and saved the government millions of dollars in the procurement of a $100 million dollar Satellite Data Handling System. He has published several business-weather and technical reports identifying winning strategies to capitalize on the weather, and has identified how weather influences the overall economy. Bill is regularly featured on Fox, CNBC and other national TV networks and quoted in Bloomberg, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, ICSC and Citigroup retail reports and other media outlets as an expert in long range weather cycles. Bill is also a consulting partner with the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) with leader status on their network of experts (Top 5%). He is named on four U.S. and U.K. patents as inventor and co-inventor for business-weather forecasting technology. Bill is a graduate of Rutgers University as an Air Force Distinguished Graduate with a B.S. in Meteorology. Bill currently sits on the Advisory Board of Directors for Millersville University’s Business of Science Masters Program, and is a lifetime founding member of the Open Atmospheric Society (OAS). Bill is a signatory and member of the Cornwall Alliance.

Granular is an agriculture software and analytics company dedicated to helping industry leaders build stronger and smarter farms. With cloud, mobile and advanced data science technology, the Granular platform makes it easier to manage a large farm every day and use data for critical business decisions. Connecting financial, operational and agronomic information into a single platform, farmers can boost their efficiency and productivity. Granular’s rapidly growing network of farms in the US and Canada is finding new ways to profit from aggregated data, expertise and market power. Granular is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Tao Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and Khosia Ventures. http://www.granular.ag

Sonic® herbicide provides long-lasting control to prevent weeds from emerging in soybean fields. With proven performance on difficult-to-control and herbicide-resistant weeds, soybean growers depend on Sonic for clean fields, an easy harvest and increased yield potential.

Scott Anderson is a former Wall Street Investment Banker who returned to run family farm and now provides precision grain marketing management tools to farmers.

Nathan serves as the Nebraska Extension Cropping Systems and Agricultural Technologies Educator from Fremont, NE. He provides local agronomic support for Dodge and Washington County. After growing up on the family dairy farm 15 miles northeast of Fremont, he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a PhD in agronomy from Kansas State University. His master’s degree focused on sediment and phosphorus movement in agricultural watersheds. After that, he worked for the Indiana State Department of Agriculture – Soil Conservation Division for two years while his wife attended Purdue University in West Lafayette. He moved to Manhattan, KS where he worked on my PhD at Kansas State University in the Department of Agronomy. His doctoral research was on the nitrogen use of winter annual weeds in no-till corn systems and his second research project was on liquid starter and foliar micronutrient fertilizers for high yield irrigated corn and soybeans. Prior to moving back to Nebraska, he was an assistant professor at South Dakota State University from 2012-2014 serving as the state extension agronomist in Brooking, SD. Nathan is also a Certified Crop Adviser in Nebraska. Find Nathan on Twitter

Staff of Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture share their latest insights on efforts farmers and the supply chain are taking across the country to protect water, air, soil, habitat and way of life for generations to come.

Environmental Tillage Systems, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of conservation tillage and nutrient management equipment, which enhances soil productivity and farm profitability.

My wife and I were both raised in suburban America with no agriculture backgrounds whatsoever. In 2014, we decided to become first generation farmers, and we bought a farm in Southern Middle Tennessee where we now raise Black Angus cattle. I was the 2017 American Farm Bureau Discussion Meet National Winner, and continue to be involved with Tennessee Young Farmers and Ranchers State Committee. I am also a member of Partners in Advocacy Leadership Class 9 where I go around the world with nine other individuals advocating agriculture.