Matt Griggs is a 5th generation farmer with his wife Kelly Griggs. He has a degree in Plant and Soil Science and raises 2000 acres of corn, cotton, wheat, and soybeans in West Tennessee. Matt has intensively managed high biomass cover crops since 2014 and currently serves on the Madison County NRCS Board of Directors. Matt is an American Soybean Association Conservation Legacy Award Southern Region Winner, has been awarded the High Cotton Award and TACD Tennissee Conservation Farmer Of The Year. Matt has been featured on "The American Farm" on The History Channel and has a successful YouTube channel on farming and soil health. 

Dr. Chris Reberg-Horton co-leads the Precision Sustainable Agriculture network consisting of on-farm and on-station experiments that operate in 25 states and over 120 locations. Chris is the Platform Director for Resilient Agricultural Systems at the Plant Sciences Initiative at NC State University where he supports teams addressing climate change, food security, and the use of new technologies for adaptive management of farms. 

Allen (Buddy) Oubre Jr. is a 7th generation farmer who grows sugarcane, rice, soybean and crawfish in St. Martin and Iberia Parishes on the family farm.  He is a board of director at the LASUCA sugar mill

Arnold Caylor currently farms in Cullman County, Alabama. He was director of the North Alabama Horticultural Research Center in Cullman, AL for over 30 years. Caylor uses cover crops for vegetable cropping systems and is experienced with summer and winter cover crops.

Carmen Blubaugh is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Georgia in the Entomology department. Her work examines how agricultural biodiversity influences pest and weed control. Carmen also researches how cover crops and tillage influence biological control of pests and weeds. 

Dr. Jennifer Jo Thompson runs the Social Sustainability of Agriculture and Food Systems Lab in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at the University of Georgia. Dr. Thompson leads the Precision Sustainable Agriculture social science team, where her research seeks to co-develop knowledge and outreach that supports farmers in adopting climate smart agricultural practices, like cover cropping. Her work is also focused on expanding equity and participation in agriculture and food systems. 

Dr. Johan Desaeger is an associate professor of plant nematology at the University of Florida. He received his graduate degrees in Belgium at the University of Gent and the University of Leuven, and has worked in nematology for over 25 years, first in Kenya with the World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), and then in the US in industry and academia. His research and extension programs at the University of Florida are focused on developing integrated nematode management (INM) programs.

John Bitter is a first generation farmer and founder of Frog Song Organics in eastern Alachua County, FL. He grows over 80 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and herbs and raise pork on pasture and free-range chickens. John is committed to impriving soil quality by using cover crops along with other sustainable practices. 

Marty Earnest is a no-till farmer in Caldwell Parish.  He produces wheat, oats, and soybeans, grows his own cover crop seed and is passionate about soil health.

Myron Johnson (Double J Farms) is a fourth generation farmer in Headland, Alabama. He farms approximately 2300 acres of cotton, peanuts, corn, and pasture. Johnson has planted high-residue cover crops to retain soil moisture and keep nutrients in the field since 2010. He invented his own strip-tillage implement, which rolls the cover crop while tilling a seed bed that is 4- to 6- inches wide.

Peyton Sapp earned his Masters of Agricultural Extension Education and his Bachelor of Science - Animal Science at the University of Georgia.  He has been employed with UGA Extension for 28 years and has been the Burke County Ag Agent since 2008. Cover crop management and utilization is a major component of his extension program, in which he educates and promotes the many benefits of preserving and building strong soil health with all of his producers.

Dr. Rocky Lemus is a Professor, the Extension Forage Specialist and Leader of the Center for Forage Management & Environmental Stewardship at Mississippi State University.  His work focus on grazing management of cover crops and legume systems.

Tim Tucker owns and operates Tim Tucker Farm in Uriah, AL, where he farms cotton, peanuts and cattle. Tim uses a variety of small grain, legume, and brassica cover crops to supplement feed for his cow-calf and stocker cattle operations. 

Kent Whittig grew up on a farm in southwest Idaho that his great-grandfather homesteaded over 100 years ago. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in agriculture from the University of Idaho. Kent was first introduced to cover crops while on a university foreign exchange program in Germany and for the past seven years, has worked extensively in the promotion of conventional and organic cover crops in the western United States. 

Zeb Winslow is a cotton, corn, soybean, and small grain farmer from Scotland Neck, NC.  Zeb started using cover crops (triticale terminated at 12-18”) and strip tillage in the mid-90s.  In the past 5 seasons, he started changing his farming system and has transitioned to 100% no-till with a multi-species mixture of cover crops on all his acres.  The base mix Zeb uses on his farm is rye, triticale, oats, crimson clover, woolly pod vetch, and rape.  During this transition, Zeb was able to keep his yields constant while reducing his input costs.

Dr. Audrey Gamble is an Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist at Auburn University. Audrey is an expert in soil fertility and conservation with interests in conservation cropping systems to improve soil health and short-term soil health indicators as predictors of long-term soil health

Dr. Carl Motsenbocker is a Professor at Louisiana State University. Carl specializes in sustainable vegetable crop production practices. He researches vegetable crop physiology and the effect of cultural practices such as cover crop use on vegetable crop growth and development. 

Dr. Carlene Chase is an Associate Professor in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida. Carlene specializes in reducing the environmental impacts of weed management with a particular interest in cover crops and living mulches as weed management strategies.

Dr. Josh Lofton is an Associate professor of plant and soil sciences and Cropping Systems Specialist at Oklahoma State University. Josh focuses on integrating economically and agronomically viable agriculture systems with interests in crop rotation, tillage, planting practices, and harvest management. 

Dr. Kip Balkcom is a Soil Dynamics Research Agronomist with the USDA-ARS based at Auburn University. Kip is an expert in conservation tillage systems, soil fertility, and cover crop management.

Nathan Lowder is the Southeast Regional Soil Health Specialist with the USDA-NRCS. Nathan provides training on soil conservation practices to build and maintain soil health. He has been a cover crop adopter for decades on his own farm Folk L. Farm, Inc in North Carolina. Nathan raises corn, wheat, soybeans, and cotton on his 500-acre farm. All of his crops are no-till and he incorporates pasture into his operation to add nutrients to the soil. 

Dr. Nicholas Basinger is an Assistant Professor and weed ecologist at the University of Georgia. Nicholas specializes in weed ecology with a focus on the role of intercropping, cover crops, and living mulches in integrated weed management in cropping systems.

Rachel M Stout Evans is a Resource Soil Scientist with the USDA-NRCS serving Louisiana. Rachel provides soil survey information and interprets that information to provide land use and management recommendations. She was previously on the Soil Survey staff in Mississippi and has worked on soil and ecological projects across the southeastern states and in Montana. 

Dr. Srinivasa Rao Mentreddy is a professor of Crop Science at Alabama A&M University. Rao evaluates tropical plants for adoption in the Southeastern region of the United States and specializes in cover crops in organic cropping systems.

Dr. Virginia Sykes is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Virginia specializes in variety evaluation with a focus on improving methods and data dissemination and determining best management practices to optimize conservation agriculture and its benefits.

Dr. Vitalis Temu is an Associate Professor of Small Ruminants and Forage Ecology at Virginia State University. Vitalis specializes in forage ecology, sustainable crop-livestock production, and agroecosystem management. 

Dr. Wink Alison is an Associate Professor at Louisiana State University. Wink specializes in pasture and forage management. And conducts agronomic research in the potential for forage crops as biofuel sources. 

Andrew Sparks is a farmer and Regional Extension Agent for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. He attended Auburn University where he received a B.S. in Agriculture Business and Economics. Prior to working in Extension, he spent 7 years at Lazenby Farms as their farm operations manager, and he has experience managing cover crops in many different crops grown in central Alabama including corn, cotton, peanuts, soybeans, and sesame. 

Brett Peshek owns and operates Element Foods on his farm in Mountain View Oklahoma. Brett utilizes cover crops and adaptive grazing management to enable year-round grazing. He operates a low input system and aims for regenerative ranching. 

Cooper Hurst owns Hunt Hill Cattle Company, a commercial cow-calf operation in Woodville Mississippi.  Cooper and his wife Katie aim for a regenerative grazing system that provides proper nutrition to all livestock year round at the lowest cost while keeping soil health at the foundation of their operation. 

Donna Isaacs serves as executive director for Campti Field of Dreams, a Louisiana non-profit organization that partners with USDA NRCS to conduct outreach and education in historically-underserved communities. She co-owns and operates DeLaTerre Permaculture Farm, a 14-acre diversified farm in Eros, Louisiana where she utilizes cover crops as part of her regenerative organic practices. She also supports 20 beginning farmers while they implement No-Till Organic Market Garden Production statewide as part of a USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant.

Ed James has worked with Citrus since his teen years. He has his own 45-acre grove in Florida. He educates citrus growers on the benefits of cover crops and creating a healthy microbiome using his own grove as an example. Ed’s cover crops provide 100 percent of the nitrogen in his grove, and finds that cover crops have increased the economic sustainability of his operation due to reduced fertilizer costs. Ed uses about a dozen different annuals as cover crops.

Heather is the Louisiana state consumer horticulturist with the LSU AgCenter. Heather works extensively with home gardener extension. And heads the Get It Growing horticulture outreach program chich serves the public through videos, news articles, and other media. 

Jason has been farming for 27 years and currently grows corn, wheat, and soybeans on 1000 acres in Eastover, South Carolina. Jason strives to build healthy soils, decrease inputs. Jason has planted cover crops on 100 percent of his acreage. Jason has eradicated the need for glyphosate, fungicide, and commercial phosphorous, potassium, and lime applications on his operation. 

Joel Love is a best management practices team leader and educator with the University of Florida. Joel specializes in water conservation, soil health improvement, conservation tillage and cover cropping. 

Robert is a Nutrient Management Specialist at Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. He is Co-Owner of Brandon Farms in Dunnsville, VA where he has utilized cover crops for years. 

Ted and his wife Melissa, along with their four children,  own and operate Delta Dairy LLC in Baskin La.  He represents the dairy industry on the board. Delta Dairy LLC milks 600 cows and raises 600 head of young stock on 1200 acres including 670 irrigated acres.  While working to improve soil health on previously abused and highly eroded farmland, Ted has seen first-hand the benefits of a carefully managed grazing rotation system in improving organic levels and water holding capability of the soil.