Keynote Speakers

John McGillicuddy is a highly regarded independent Agronomist from Iowa City, Iowa who conducts training sessions for various seed companies in the Midwest and also serves farmer clients directly in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, and is a Certified Crop Adviser in Iowa. John has been the keynote speaker at numerous agronomic conferences including Kansas State’s “Residue Management Conference” Texas A&M’s “High Plains Irrigation Conference”, and the “No-till on the Plains Conference”.

Tom Kilcer is a professional agronomist with Advanced Ag Systems LLC with over 34 years experience in agronomic research and consulting work on winter triticale, haylage-in-a-day forage systems, switchgrass for biofuels and evaluating N sources for crops.

Scott Fritz of Winamac, Ind. farms 2,500 acres of soybeans, corn and popcorn with his son, Andrew. He serves as an ex-officio member of the Indiana Soybean Alliance and currently represents Indiana as a director of the American Soybean Association.