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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.

Tom is a passionate entrepreneur and precision conservation thought leader with over 30 years of experience in conservation planning. He founded Agren in 1996 to pioneer innovative conservation solutions to complex environmental problems. After 22 years he sold Agren to a major ag retailer. Tom drives business development and strategic partnerships, and is highly regarded for his creativity, innovation and commitment to developing tools to further conservation implementation. Prior to Agren he spent 14 years with the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Iowa as a Soil Conservationist and as a District Conservationist. Tom has received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agronomy in 1982 and a Master of Business Administration in 1995, both from Iowa State University.

Cargill Animal Nutrition is ready to help you feed your dreams. Our nutrition specialists work with you to understand your dairy’s needs and goals. Then we artfully apply 150 years of insight to tailor nutrition that helps bring your dreams to life. It’s a blend of art and science. It’s how Cargill helps dairies thrive.

With nearly 100 retail offices and more than 1,100 employees throughout Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, Farm Credit Mid-America supports rural communities and agriculture with reliable, consistent credit and financial services for each customer’s unique situation.

When Natalina Sents moved the gold tassel on her graduation cap to become an Iowa State University graduate, she wasn’t headed for a full-time job. She was embarking on the journey of a lifetime. Partnering with Beck’s, the largest family-owned retail seed company in the United States, Sents is setting out on the Why I Farm Roadtrip – a year-long, 50 state tour documenting agriculture’s diversity and revealing the untold stories of America’s farmers.