Doug Spencer serves as the state grazing specialist for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Kansas.  He provides NRCS personnel and the producers they serve with statewide leadership, technical guidance, and training on grassland and livestock management related practices, programs, and activities.  Some of the most rewarding portions of his 25-year career with the agency has been working and learning alongside producers seeking resource-based solutions.  Awards include the USDA-NRCS Rangeland Conservationist of the Year in 2020 and the Hugh Hammond Bennett Northern Plai

Logan is the 5th generation at Wine Glass Ranch, located in Southwest Nebraska, where he resides with his wife and two daughters.

He studied Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Following that he pursued a short career with a financial consulting firm in the Silicon Valley of California. He is also a graduate of Texas A&M’s TEPAP program, Ranching for Profit School, and was a Nebraska LEAD fellow with class 35.

Mark and Sindi Lohrding, along with Marks Parents Arlie and Patricia own and operate Lohrding Three Bar Ranch Inc. in Comanche and Clark County Kansas.  Three Bar run both registered and commercial black Angus cattle in a year round grazing system.  The ranch has been involved in management intensive grazing for 20+ years that encompasses over 100 semi- permanent paddocks and has recently added their cropland to the grazing system.

Lance Feikert is the fifth generation on his family farm, which started in 1890. After no-tilling for more than eleven years, the farm is beginning its move to continuous no-till. Lance and his wife, Heidi, have four children.

Brice Custer is the owner and operator of Custer Farms LLC. Brice, his wife Shanon and two young boys live in Hays, KS. He operates a no-till farming operation that includes growing corn, wheat, milo oats, and barley. In 2008 he started planting cover crops into the summer fallow period. A few years later he started to realize the weed suppression and soil health improvement that the cover crops were providing. With the growing interest in cover crops and having his own seed available, his cover crop seed sales operation took off.