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Ben Potter writes about the many new on-farm technologies that make farmers better, faster, more efficient and more profitable. He has more than 9 years of experience writing for a cotton publication and an advertising agency serving agribusiness clients. This helped him build a strong foundation of agronomic and crop-protection knowledge for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts and a variety of specialty crops. Ben attended both the University of Missouri (journalism) and the University of Memphis (technical writing). Ben’s grandparents were corn and soybean farmers, and his father was a soil scientist with the USDA. Away from work, Ben keeps busy with a broad range of activities, whether it’s long-distance running, growing habanero peppers or spending quality time with his wife and two daughters.

As Multimedia Editor for Machinery and Crops, Aimee Cope leads machinery coverage on all of our platforms, serves as Farm Journal test plots director and acts as the field reporter with Farm Journal “Corn College TV.” A star agricultural journalism graduate of the University of Missouri, Aimee hit the ground running in her career. As a field service representative for the Missouri Corn Growers Association, she tailored content to specific producer audiences, hosted 55 events a year, partici-pated in research projects and dedicated her passion for agriculture to serving farmers.

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Mike Jubinville is the editor of Pro Farmer Canada based out of Winnipeg. Mike formerly was employed as a cash merchant with what was then United Grain Growers. Mike also worked as an analyst with Manitoba Pool Elevators and market reporter with Resource News International and DowJones Newswires out of Winnipeg and Chicago. He started Pro Farmer Canada in 1997 to provide independent market analysis and commentary for Prairie farmers.

Sarah Beth Aubrey’s mission is to enhance success and profitability in agricultural and rural communities by building capacity in people. She believes everyone has a unique definition of success and strives to foster that potential through one-on-one executive coaching, by facilitating peer groups, or by leading boards through change-based planning initiatives. An entrepreneur since 2003, in 2015 she founded A.C.T., Aubrey Coaching & Training, a performance-based leadership training and executive coaching firm. Her A.C.T. Now! Program, a series of live seminars, launches in Indianapolis in 2016. Sarah Beth holds a B.S. in Agricultural Communications from the University of Illinois and a M.S. in Strategic Communication from Purdue University. She began her career with Novartis moving next into business development and training with ABG, Inc. Entrepreneurial at heart, at 26 she launched a retail meat business and at 30 a grant writing firm. Both businesses have been sold to investors. As the CEO of Prosperity Ag, LLC, Sarah Beth wrote over 300 successful grants in 39 states, yielding nearly $60 million in funding. She is technically savvy in understanding the complex issues facing agriculture today, and blogs on these topics for Farm Journal Media’s Agweb.com. The author of four books, Sarah Beth is also part of the Adjunct Faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) where she designs curriculum and teaches graduate courses on entrepreneurship. She is a 2011 alumna of the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series, a member of the National Speaker’s Association, the Indiana AgrIInstitute, and the 2015 class of the Stanley K. Lacey Executive Leadership Program. The Indianapolis Business Journal named her one of 2013’s 40 Under 40 list of young professionals to watch and in 2015 she was honored as a member of Vance Publishing’s 40 under 40 in Agriculture. As a speaker and workshop leader, Sarah Beth emphasizes personal accountability and process improvement. Clients work with her to facilitate professional assessment tools, including Strengths Finder ™, for the creation of customized small group and individual training needs, and to design qualitative market research programs that support better understanding of customer or member needs and decision making. Her unique ‘Your Strategic Plan on a Page in 1-Hour or Less’ workshop is a popular program for executive teams, farm family governance boards, and for conference breakout sessions. A partial list of clients includes: American Feed Industry Association, the National Sorghum Association, Indiana Farm Bureau, the State of Indiana, Brock Grain Handling, Purdue University, Wabash Valley Power Company, Farm Journal Media, Vectren, Virginia’s Ag Region 2000, NTCA, The Rural Broadband Association, and Westfield-Washington Township. Sarah Beth and her husband raise cattle in Central Indiana where she is active in statewide and local organizations, including serving as a Director for a rural telecommunications cooperative. Follow Sarah Beth on Facebook or by joining her newsletter at: www.sarahbethaubrey.com.

Rick Lunquist is an independent nutrition and management consultant based in Duluth, Minn.