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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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
  • Originally from central Minnesota, Mark Jewell grew up around the aquaculture, dairy, and poultry industries. He attended the University of Minnesota, completing a B.S. in Agricultural Education, Leadership Training and Development. Carrying a deep devotion for agriculture he spends time working with young leaders of the National FFA Organization as a leadership trainer and speaker. His work has carried him around the United States, and Europe working to develop sustainable leadership training programs for young people. Always quick to pick up on the potential and talent of others, Mark has ventured into the World Wide Web to help free lance professionals share their skills with the agriculture industry. In this effort, he founded AggieLance.com (or Ag-eLance) a service which aids agricultural employers in finding the free lance talent they need. mark@aggielance.com www.aggielance.com
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  • Vance Ehmke and his wife Louise live and farm in the High Plains of western Kansas on the farm that was homesteaded by Vance’s great grandparents back in l886. A past president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and current member of Kansas Crop Improvement Association, the Ehmkes are strong believers in value added and niche markets as well as vertically coordinated business systems. They grow certified seed wheat, rye and triticale. Vance has BS and MS degrees from Kansas State University.