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John Mason
Assistant General Manager and Owner
AD Makepeace Cranberry & Tilson
Brook Cranberry Co.
John oversees operations at AD
Makepeace Cranberry, and owns Tilson Brook Cranberry,
a small cranberry farm he grew up on. Both are Ocean
Spray Cranberry Cooperative owners. He also serves as
president of Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association
and participates in other industry groups. He hopes to
inspire the next generation to sustain it.
Jordan Martin
Business Unit Director
Timac Agro USA
For 18 years, Jordan has worked
with fruit and vegetables
throughout the Northeast, making on-farm fertilizer
recommendations and managing a sales team as
Timac's business unit director. Jordan's family farm
grows tomatoes, pumpkins and tree fruit. He is also on
the board of First Fruits Farm.
Joshua Grant
Agriculture & Natural
Resources Agent
University of Georgia Cooperative
Extension
As an Extension agent in Crisp County, Georgia, Josh
focuses on fusarium wilt management in watermelon
research. Working with specialists and industry reps, he
helps fight the devastating disease through assessing
fumigation, fungicide and grafting technologies. Josh
provides growers information on label changes at state/
regional meetings.
Kaity Dietrich
Crop Consultant
Nutrien Ag Solutions
Kaity graduated from Ferris
State University with ornamental
horticulture and business administration majors. She
enjoys working with growers to successfully manage
crops from start to harvest, including employing
sustainable solutions. Kaity is the secretary and board
member of Michigan Pomesters.
Maddie Frisbie
Midwest Sales Consultant
Gowan Seed Company
Maddie was raised in Fort Myers,
Florida, where her family has
farmed for more than 20 years. She graduated from the
University of Illinois in 2020 with an agribusiness degree.
Maddie has worked with Gowan Seed for five years and
is training in product development to learn her territory's
best varieties. She enjoys working with growers.
Mary Sheppard
Field Manager
Golden Stock Farms
Mary has worked in agriculture
since earning a crop and soil science
degree from Michigan State University in 2013. For eight
years, she was a sales agronomist for Ceres Solutions
Cooperative in Michigan, where she gained specialty crop
knowledge, especially asparagus. Mary then became field
manager for Golden Stock Farms in Mears, Michigan,
where she oversees the production of 350 acres of
asparagus as well as row crops.
Matt Munsell
Owner
Munsell Farms, Munsell's Poultry
Processing
At Matt's family centennial farm in
Fowlerville, Michigan, pumpkins and squash along with
sunflowers, field corn, soybeans, oats, hay and rye are
grown. Matt runs the farm market and greenhouse. He
also owns and operates Munsell's Poultry Processing,
where chickens, turkeys, waterfowl and rabbits are
processed for Michigan growers, fairs and FFAs. Matt
lives on the farm with his wife Amanda and two children.
Nick Deeds
Supply Chain Manager
Illinois Foundation Seeds
An Idaho Treasure Valley native,
Nick's passion for agriculture began
in 2003 with the Idaho State Department of Agriculture,
where he provided phytosanitary certification and export
guidance to the seed industry. In 2015, he joined Illinois
Foundation Seeds and is supply chain manager for the
vegetable seeds business unit. He oversees regulatory
and logistic strategies to ensure a consistent supply of
high-quality vegetable seeds to IFSI's global network of
dealers, growers and consumers.
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