Peggy Beltrone
Scottsdale, AZ
President, Exergy Integrated Systems; Former Commissioner, Cascade County, Montana
John R. “Jack” Block
Washington, DC
Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981-1986; Senior government advisor, Olsson, Frank and Weeda; Former President, wholesale
division of Food Marketing Institute; former President and Chief
Executive Officer, Food Distributors International
New Haven, VT
Retired Professor of Animal Science & Associate Director, Animal
& Poultry Waste Management Center, North Carolina State University
Tom Ewing
Pontiac, IL
Former Chair, USDA, DOE Biomass R&D Federal Advisory Committee; former
Member of Congress (15th/IL) 1991-2001; Chairman, House Agriculture
Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops
Barry Flinchbaugh
Manhattan, KS
Professor of Agricultural Economics, Kansas State University; Chairman, Commission on 21st Century Production Agriculture
Robert Foster
Middlebury, VT
Dairy farmer, composter, anaerobic digester; President, Vermont Natural
Ag Products; Vice-President, Foster Brothers Farm Inc.; President,
AgReFresh
Richard Hahn
Omaha, NE
Retired President, Farmers National Company
Harry L. Haney, Jr.
Austin, TX
Consultant, nonindustrial private forestland management; Emeritus
professor, Department of Forestry, College of Natural Resources,
Virginia Tech; former President, Forest Landowners Association
Ron Heck
Perry, IA
Soybean and corn producer; former President, American Soybean Association
Houghton, SD
General Counsel & Vice President of Corporate Development with Raven Industries; Former Principal Attorney, Olsson, Frank and Weeda; former Member of Congress
(SD); former Executive Director, South Dakota Farmers Union Foundation
Rockwell City, IA
Corn and soybean producer; former Board Member, National Corn Growers Association
Clarks Hill, IN
Advisor, F.R. Hall & Associates, LLC; former Deputy Secretary, U.S.
Department of Agriculture; former Director of Agricultural Services and
Regulations, Purdue University's School of Agriculture; Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Bobby D. Moser
Dublin, OH
Former Vice President, Agricultural Administration and Dean, The Ohio
State University; former Chair of the Department of Animal Sciences,
Associate Dean of Agriculture, and Agriculture Extension Program
Director, University of Missouri
Bill Northey
Des Moines, IA
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture; former president, National Corn Growers Association; corn and soybean farmer
Former President, Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation; Former Board Member,
American Farm Bureau Federation
Tallahassee, FL
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services; former member of Congress (12th/FL); cattle rancher and citrus grower
William Richards
Circleville, OH
Corn and soybean producer; former Chief, U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service
E. Dale Threadgill
Athens, GA
Director, Faculty of Engineering, and Department Head, Biological &
Agricultural Engineering, Driftmier Engineering Center, and the
Biorefinery and Carbon Cycling Program, University ofGeorgia; Private
forest landowner