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  • Marc Schober is the editor of Farmland Forecast (http://farmlandforecast.colvin-co.com) an educational blog devoted to investments in agriculture and farmland. The blog highlights news from around the agriculture sector including farmland value trends, agriculture company reports, farming practices, and other agricultural topics. Contact Information: tmschober@colvin-co.com (763) 427-7991
  • Tom Buis Tom Buis became National Farmers Union’s 13th president during the organization’s 104th anniversary convention in 2006. Buis has been with the organization since March 1998, previously serving as vice president of government relations. In this capacity, he oversaw the NFU Washington, D.C., government relations office, which advocates the interests of family farmers in Congress and the administration. Prior to joining NFU, Buis served for nearly five years as senior agriculture policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. In addition, Buis worked for U.S. Rep. Jim Jontz, D-Ind., for nearly five years as legislative assistant and legislative director. He was also special assistant for agriculture to U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind. Before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1987, Buis was a full-time grain and livestock farmer in Putnam and Morgan Counties in West Central Indiana, with brothers Mike and Jeff, who continue to operate the family farm. Additionally, Buis serves as a member of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) executive committee. The international organization represents more than 600 million farm families. Tom and his wife Peggy reside in Gaithersburg, Md. and have two college-age sons, Nicholas and Andrew.
  • Scott Stewart grew up in agriculture. He began his career as a market analyst for Top Farmers of America, an agricultural publishing and market advisory firm, where his advisory track record earned him national recognition. He now serves as president and CEO for Stewart-Peterson, which was formed in 1985 and offers strategic commodity opportunity and risk management, brokerage services and advisory publications for commodity markets.
  • Jenny Senn, Diane Henderson and Chuck Adami --- Jenny Senn helps manage “Senn-Sational Jerseys,” the dairy farm where the Senn family has been breeding and developing a fully registered herd of award-winning Jersey Cattle for more than 30 years. The herd includes more than 550 milking cows and 550 young stock, in addition to about 900 farmed acres. Jenny is a current Cattlemen’s Beef Board member, has been active with the American Jersey Cattle Association, the South Carolina and Saluda County Jersey Cattle associations, and the South Carolina Cattlemen’s Association. She is a former recipient of the Young Jersey Breeder Award from the American Jersey Cattle Association. Diane’s responsibilities for the Cattlemen’s Beef Board include development and dissemination of newsletters, Board updates, presentations about the beef checkoff, and other checkoff information to Board members, state beef councils, other industry organizations, producers and importers. Diane has been with the Beef Board since 2001. Previously, she was a senior industry specialist with Standard & Poor’s, where she analyzed trends in retail and consumer-products industries, including agriculture. She also has served as managing editor of Jackson Hole Magazine, a book editor for Homestead Publishing, and as a newspaper reporter and editor. Much of her writing and editing background centered on cattlemen’s issues in Wyoming and Colorado. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism, with emphasis in political science, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the proud mother of a son, Nate, 15, and daughter, Bailey, 13. Chuck is the president and CEO of Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association, which is Wisconsin’s largest and the nation’s second largest independent livestock marketing agency. Currently, Chuck is the president of the Wisconsin Beef Council. He also serves on several state and national agricultural boards, including the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association-Federation, where he is a member of the operating committee, and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Board where he is vice chairman of the Livestock Marketing Council. In addition, he is chairman of the Wisconsin FFA Foundation Board and a member of the FFA sponsors board of directors, is a director on the Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium, a director on the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and is a director and a member on the executive committee of the National Livestock Producers Association. Most recently, he became advisor to the board of directors of the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin.
  • Linda Smith is VP, publications and editor of The Brock Report. She came to Brock Associates from DTN/The Progressive Farmer, where she was markets editor. Prior to that, she was executive editor of Top Producer and business and marketing editor for Farm Journal.
  • Directly from the fields across America! Planting, harvest and weather updates from growers throughout the country. We want to hear your thoughts about weather, planting and harvesting. Include your location and drop us a line.
  • Max Thornsberry, D.V.M., is R-CALF USA’s President of the Board of Directors and Region VI Director. Thornsberry is the owner and manager of TNT Cattle Co., a certified feeder calf preconditioning enterprise, as well as Avanco Feeds, a veterinary and nutrition firm that serves beef, dairy, swine and companion animal owners in central Missouri.
  • Kevin McNew is Chief Economist at Farmer’s Business Network, where he works with FBN’s data science team to analyze commodity markets and make straightforward marketing recommendations. FBN Market Intelligence subscribers get a daily email with his analysis and recommendations, plus content localized to basis prices in their area. Go to https://use.farmersbusinessnetwork.com/fbn-market-intelligence-free-trial to sign up for a free trial.