Jerald M Stewart is a dairy farmer, co-owner of Sweet Acres Creamery, and founder of Balanced Biological Solutions, assisting dairy farmers with growing profitability from the ground up.  Jerry will present proven soil and animal health approaches that have worked for farmers in our area and across the country.

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Jonathan Hamilton is the Manager for Research and Development at Gantec, Inc.  With over 13 years of experience and expertise in biological solutions that power agriculture, animal health and soil fertility, Jonathan will be sharing a new study on the performance of Gantec products at a 2300 cow dairy in Arizona that has seen increased milk production, decreased dry matter intake, and decreased somatic cell counts for a productive Holstein herd.  

Elwyn Voss & Jacob Ernst - The Voss Group is a team based financial planning firm that's been working with farm families on business succession, employee benefits, estate, and retirement income planning for over 50 years.  Skilled at dealing with both the ‘emotional’ and the financial balance sheets, they offer a full range of financial and estate planning services, life insurance solutions and investment management options.

Trystan Sandvoss is a dairy entrepreneur and founder and principal of Cycle Up Strategies, a consulting firm that is focused on identifying efficiencies and profitable strategies for dairy farms, and food & beverage companies.  Trystan’s creamery First Light Farm & Creamery grew from two brothers and 15 goats to a nationally distributed brand of goat and cow milk cheese sold in Wegmans, Whole Foods and Kroger.