Keith Berns combines over 25 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching Agriculture and Computers. In addition to no-tilling 2,000 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Keith has experimented with over 100 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation, moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops. Keith was honored by the White House as a 2016 Champion of Change for Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture. Keith also developed the SmartMix CalculatorTM one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet Keith has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Education from the University of Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 40 times per year to various groups and audiences. Keith also was appointed by Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts to be part of the Nebraska Healthy Soils Task Force and had the privilege of serving as the chairman.

Dan Schultz is a category designer on a mission to fight the nose-picking, credentialed naysayers who've cluttered agriculture with ugly, useless products, unhappy people, and brought rural economies to their economic knees. His mission is to turn the ag world on its head by helping executive leaders move beyond stale ideas and take the reins in creating new markets that actually work for people, not against them. Through consulting for companies across the industry, speaking, and writing his daily newsletter, Ag Done Different, he challenges leaders to ditch incremental change and step into bold, strategic differentiation.