Curt Mether
Chair, Iowa Corn Growers Association; Member, National Corn Growers Association, U.S. Grains Council, Iowa Soybean Association, Iowa Farm Bureau, and American Green Gas.
Curt has been farming for 41 years and currently grows corn and soybeans with his wife, Anita. He enjoys creating opportunities for long-term corn grower profitability.
Dwight Mogler
VP of Resources, Iowa Pork Producers Association
Dwight is a senior partner with Mogler Farms/Pig Hill. They have 3,000 sows and market 90,000 pigs wean-to-finish per year. The farm enterprise also includes 2,500 acres of corn and soybeans. He was named a Master Pork Producer by IPPA in 1982 and he received the Pork All-American Award in 1997.
Eunice Biel
Former Chair, Executive Committee, Minnesota Farmers Union
Eunice is a producer at Biel Dairy, which manages 200 cows and 1,400 acres of crops. She has also served as county farmers union president and a frequent participant in National Farmers Union Legislative Fly-ins. Eunice enjoys working for better policies for producers.
Fred Yoder
Co-Chair, Solutions from the Land; Past President, National Corn Growers Association
Fred is a fourth-generation grower who has farmed for over forty years. He raises corn, soybeans, and wheat. As an advocate, Fred promotes agriculture as a solution to many sustainability challenges. He feels it is imperative to produce more in a sustainable way, while also providing ecosystem services.
Phil Gordon
Vice President, Michigan Corn Growers Association
Phil is owner of Gordon Valley Farms, where he and his family grow corn, wheat, and soybeans. His love for the land led him to be recognized by the Michigan Agriculture Environmental Assurance Program. Phil believes in being proactive and trying new things when it comes to farming and protecting the environment.
Brad Doyle
Board of Directors, American Soybean Association; President, County Farm Bureau; former President, Arkansas Soybean Association
Brad operates Berger Farms/Eagle Seed with his wife Joyce in Weiner, AR. They grow soybeans, rice, wheat and cereal rye. He’s attended the ASA DuPont Young Leader program and Leadership At Its Best, in addition to a REAP Tour and Soybean Leadership College. He’s also on the ASA Advocacy Communications Team.
Brandon Hunnicutt
Vice Chair, Nebraska Corn Board; Member, Corn Board, National Corn Growers Association (NCGA); Chair, Board of Directors, Field to Market; Past President, Nebraska Corn Growers Association; Past President, Nebraska Agricultural Technologies Association
Brandon raises corn, soybeans, seed corn, popcorn and sorghum on his family farm in Giltner, Nebraska. Brandon is a graduate of NCGA’s Leadership At Its Best and Advanced Leadership Program.
You?
Director, Midwest Commodity Growers Association
RIPE is seeking ag industry leaders who are active with commodity trade groups in the Midwest to serve on RIPE’s Ag Steering Committee. We are holding spaces for representatives of particular states and commodities and would welcome the opportunity to talk with you about the opportunity.
Chrisina DeConcini
Director of Government Affairs, World Resources Institute
Ari Peskoe
Director, Electricity Law Initiative, Harvard Law School, Environmental and Energy Law Program
Dr. William H. Schlesinger
President Emeritus, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Clare Sierawski
Former environmental advisor to Senator John Kerry and former Chief of Staff for U.S. State Department Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change
Ken McCarty
Owner/Manager, McCarty Family Farms, 4th-Generation Dairy Farmer
Meredith Ellis
Rancher, G Bar C Ranch; Board Member, Integrity Beef Alliance; US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef
Ray Gaesser
Co-Chair, Conservation Infrastructure Initiative; Former President, American Soybean Association and Iowa Soybean Association
Roger Zylstra
President, Iowa Corn Promotion Board; Chair, NCGA Stewardship Action Team; Participant, Soil Health Partnership
Susan Brocksmith
Producer, Vincennes, IN; Chair, Agribusiness, Vincennes University
Tony Mellenthin
President, Wisconsin Soybean Association; Producer, Mellenthin Farms
Anonymous Advisor
An anonymous fourth-generation farmer of grains and cattle; serves in leadership roles in state and national farm trade associations
Carla Frisch
Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute on America’s Pledge; former Director of Climate and Environmental Analysis, U.S. Department of Energy
Dr. Laura Bozzi
Director of Programs, Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
Amanda DeBusk, Melissa Duffy, and Jean Chang
Dechert LLP
Prof. Ted Feitshans
Extension Professor Emeritus, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of North Carolina
Professor Eric Patashnik
Director, Master of Public Affairs Program at Brown University, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Dr. Dallas Burtraw
Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Chair of California’s Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee
Sonia Aggarwal, Chris Busch, and Robbie Orvis
Energy Innovation
Danica MacAvoy
Consultant to NGOs on partnership, outreach, growth, and communication strategies & efforts. Former Associate Director, Commitments with the CGI, former sustainability consultant with BSR
Dr. Deb Gordon
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at Brown University, former Director of the Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
You?
RIPE wants to make sure our policy design works for as many agricultural producers as possible. Contact Jamie Powers if you want to contribute your expertise and perspective.