RIPE Coalition:
Farmer Advisory Network

RIPE’s Farmer Advisory Network (FAN) is a group of motivated producer-leaders from around the country that is working to build support for RIPE’s approach. Members spread the word to other producers, share the policy with their ag associations to advance conversations with legislators, and get RIPE in the media.

Interested in joining the FAN? To learn more about membership, please fill out a request for information form below and we’ll be in touch soon.

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What Folks Are Saying

  • “What I like about RIPE is it takes a common sense approach and considers the total public benefit for each conservation practice. If we as a nation want to truly move the conservation needle, farmers are going to need help overcoming implementation hurdles. RIPE has a plan that covers not only the cost but risk associated with practice implementation.”

    Jim Whitaker | Arkansas Rice Federation

  • “Conservation is important not just for sustainable farming, but for regenerative farming. RIPE’s approach will help producers implement these ever so important conservation practices.”

    Calli Downing | Promised Land Ag (KS)

  • “Many farmers have adopted conservation practices and want to continue to do so, but with the high cost of inputs, it is hard to keep doing some of those practices. Government programs offer funding for new conservation practices by new farmers, but the farmers that have successfully applied these practices don’t get funding. That would change with RIPE.”

    Joe Mauch | Northarvest Bean Growers Association (ND)

  • “It would be great if farmers could be compensated fairly for the conservation practices they use and that have been proven to be effective. RIPE seems to be a potential opportunity make that happen!”

    Steve Groff | Cover Crop Coaching (PA)

FAN Members

Lewis Bainbridge, Bainbridge Farm, South Dakota

Eunice Biel, Minnesota Farmers Union

Andy Boomsma

Monte Bottens, Ag Solutions Network Inc., Illinois

Hannah Breckbill, Humble Hands Harvest, Iowa

Grant Breitkreutz, Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association

Rick Brown, Brown Family Farms, North Carolina

Clay Burtrum, Farm Data Services / Burtrum Cattle LLC, Oklahoma

Jenni Carr, K-State Research and Extension, Kansas

Tony Carter, South Georgia Black Cattlemen’s Association, Georgia

Travis Carter, God’s Creation, Minnesota

Adam Chappell, Chappell Agricultural Entomology, Arkansas

Tom Cotter, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, Minnesota

Doug Crabtree, Organic Trade Association, Montana

Calli Downing, Promised Land Ag, Kansas

Patrick Duncanson, Highland Family Farms, Minnesota

Ben Dwire, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition

Meredith Ellis, G Bar C Ranch, Texas

Jimmy Emmons, Oklahoma Conservation Commission

Doug Enockson

Jacqueline Figg, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Texas

Greg Fynboh, Minnesota

Ray Gaesser, Gaesser Farms, Iowa

Fred Gainous, Florida A&M University, Florida

Dexter Gilbert, National Black Growers Council, Florida

Davon Goodwin, National Young Farmers Coalition and Off the Land (OTL) Farms, North Carolina

Clay Govier, Govier Farms, Nebraska

Rachel Gray, Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association

Steve Groff, Cover Crop Coaching, Pennsylvania

Sara Gugelmeyer, Myers Angus Farm, Arkansas

Rena Harrel, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Louisiana

Erik Hatlestad, Clean Up the River Environment (CURE), Minnesota

PJ Haynie, National Black Growers Council, Virginia

Jim Hershey, Pennsylvania No-Till Alliance, Pennsylvania

Nathan Hesse, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, Minnesota

Trey Hill, Harborview Farms, Maryland

Ted Hinton, Delaware River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy, Kansas

Trinice Holden, South Georgia Black Cattleman Association, Georgia

David Holste, Illinois

Daniel Klausmeyer, DCD Farm, Kansas

Trey Lam, Oklahoma Conservation Commission, Oklahoma

Crystal Mathisrud, Hubbard County Soil & Water Conservation District, Minnesota

Joe Mauch, Northarvest Bean Growers Association, North Dakota

Flint McCullough

Mike McDonald, NE Soil Health Coalition, Nebraska

Braden McMurdie, Utah Soil Health Coalition, Utah

Frank Meyer, Oklahoma

Jim Moseley, Former USDA Deputy Secretary, Indiana

Patrick O’Toole, Family Farm Alliance, Wyoming

Chris Rhodes, Deerfield Farm, Maryland

Scott Richert, Nebraska

Tim Richter, Saratoga Partnership, Iowa

Gary Satter, Glacial Hills Resource Conservation & Development, Kansas

Aaron Sawyer, No-Till on the Plains, Kansas

Adam Schindler, National Sorghum Producers, South Dakota

Blaine Schmaltz, Schmaltz Family Farms, North Dakota

Chris Schmidt, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, Minnesota

Anne Schwagerl, Minnesota Farmers Union, Minnesota

Somula “Sam” Schwoeppe, Schwoeppe Dairy, Indiana

Zach Sisson, Georgia

Gray Smith, Gilchrist County Farm Bureau, Florida

Jason Spellman, Tiffany Cattle Co., Kansas

Loran Steinlage, No-Till on the Plains, Kansas

Dale Strickler, Green Cover Seed, Kansas

Mikayla Tabert, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition, Minnesota

Sledge Taylor, Buckeye Farm, Mississippi

Michael Thompson, No-Till on the Plains, Kansas

Shawn Tiffany, Tiffany Cattle Company, Kansas

Tim Velde, Minnesota Farmers Union, Minnesota

Nick Vos, No-Till on the Plains, Kansas

Jim Whitaker, Arkansas Rice Federation, Arkansas

Billy Willard, Willard Agri-Service, Maryland

Steve Williams, Better Fed Foods, Texas

Darnella Winston, Growing Food, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives, Mississippi

Otis Wright, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA), Mississippi

Additional Leadership & Advisory Committees

RIPE is governed by a board of directors that is a majority agricultural producers. We also have multiple groups in addition to the Farmer Advisory Network that advise the organization and inform the policy, including our IDEA Committee and Steering Committee.