2007 Product of the Year judges.Mike Borel, Partner, The Context Network Walnut Creek, CA Borel is a Partner in The Context Network--a consulting firm which provides business management and strategy consulting services to the agriculture, biotechnology and food companies and government agencies. Major areas of expertise include strategy, merger and acquisition support, valuation of new technologies, formation of alliances and market research. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He began his career with DuPont before joining Valent Corp where he was Pres/CEO. He is a graduate of Iowa State University Academics ISU is best known for its degree programs in science, engineering, and agriculture. ISU is also home of the world's first electronic digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer. . Dr. W. David Downey, Exec Dir of the Center for Food and Agricultural Business, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN As a professor emeritus of Agricultural Sales and Marketing at Purdue University, Dr. Downey teaches course in AgriSelling and Agri-Marketing Strategy to undergraduates from several disciplines. He has been instrumental in the development of a curriculum in which students can earn a four-year B.S. degree in AgriSales and Marketing--the first such program in the U.S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He was won four major teaching awards from Purdue and two national awards from the American Agricultural Economic Association. He received all of his degrees from Purdue, including a B.S. in agronomy, and M.S. and Ph.D. in agricultural economics. He has been teaching undergraduate courses at Purdue since 1963. Dave Coppess, VP Mktg, Heartland Co-op, West Des Moines West Des Moines (də moin`), city (1990 pop. 31,702), Polk co., S central Iowa, a growing suburb W of Des Moines; inc. 1893 as Valley Junction, renamed 1938. Products manufactured there include cement, metal items, and pumps. , IA, Immediate Past Chairman, Agricultural Retailers Assoc (ARA Ara or Arrah (both: ŭ`rə), city (1991 pop. 157,082), Bihar state, NE India, on the Son Canal. A major road and rail junction, it is the administrative center for a district that produces grain, sugarcane, and oilseed. ) Heartland Co-op is a value-added, full-service cooperative owned by more than 5,000 farmer-members serving more than 33 communities throughout central and east-central Iowa. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Heartland is a large grain shipper with ag input sales of seed, fertilizer, crop protection products, feed, and petroleum serving approximately 1.5 million crop acres. He is a graduate of Iowa State University. Billy McLawhorn, CPCC-I, McLawhorn Crop Services, Cove City, NC Past Pres, NAICC NAICC National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants NAICC National Air Issues Coordinating Committee (Canada) NAICC National American Insurance Company of California NAICC Nuclear Accident & Incident Control Center McLawhorn Crop Services, Inc. (MCSI MCSI Multiple Capture Single Image MCSI Mining Consulting Services, Inc. mcSi Microcrystalline Silicon MCSI Motorola Cellular Services, Inc. MCSI Multi-Channel Communications Sciences Inc. MCSI Multi-Media Chunk Stream Identifier ) was founded by Billy McLawhorn in 1982 to provide soil and crop management advisory services to producers in eastern North Carolina Eastern North Carolina or (often abbreviated as ENC) is the region of North Carolina which includes the eastern third of North Carolina. It includes the Outer and Inner banks, thus it is often known geographically as the state's coastal region. . McLawhorn's firm was a key leader in the reintroduction of cotton production to the area and has continued to help producers develop new markets and innovative cropping systems for a number of crops, through intensive management advice on more than 25,000 acres. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MCSI has five full-time and three part-time employees and utilizes a number of college students as interns during the summer growing season. He is a past Pres of the National Alliance of Independent Crop Consultants (NAICC), and currently serves as Pres of the NAICC's educational foundation. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University History
Jack Eberspacher Pres/CEO, Agricultural Retailers Assoc., Washington, DC The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) represents the interests of the nation's crop input retailers. As its CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Eberspacher is responsible for ARA's overall business operations and serves as its chief lobbyist before Congress and the Administration. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Prior to joining the association, he was CEO of the National Association of Wheat Growers The National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) is an advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. that supports the collective interests of wheat farmers in the United States. NAWG was founded in 1950, and is structured as a federation of state grain growers associations. , and prior to that, CEO of National Grain Sorghum sorghum, tall, coarse annual (Sorghum vulgare) of the family Gramineae (grass family), somewhat similar in appearance to corn (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes. Producers Association He has also managed a 3,300 acre cattle and timber operation in Georgia. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Jerry Warner, AFM (Atomic Force Microscope) A device used to image materials at the atomic level. AFMs are used to solve processing and materials problems in electronics, telecom, biology and other high-tech industries. , VP/ Chief Management Officer, Farmers National Co., Omaha, NE First VP, ASCMRA Warner oversees Farmer National Co.'s farm management division and staff of 70 professional farm managers who manage over 3,600 farms consisting of over 1.2 million acres in 21 states. Other services include real estate sales, appraisals, consultation, commodity marketing, insurance, oil and gas management, conservation and recreation services and mapping technology. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
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