Bart Ruth
President
NEBRASKA
Brian Dougherty
Treasurer
WISCONSIN
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Bart Ruth serves as President of Nuffield USA and attended the first Nuffield Contemporary Scholars Conference as a guest in 2006.
Ruth served as president of the American Soybean Association (ASA) in 2001-2002 and spent two months in Europe in the fall of 2005 representing American Agriculture as an Eisenhower Fellow. He has long hosted Nuffield Scholars and Global Focus Program tours. He participated as a Next Generation Fellow with Columbia University’s American Assembly examining U.S. Foreign Policy and International Institutions in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Ruth farms near Rising City, NE with his son Geoffrey; the operation includes 3,000 acres of no-till crops in a rotation of corn and soybeans, of which half is irrigated. Ruth is a 1981 graduate of the University of Nebraska with a B.S. in Agronomy.
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Brian is a regenerative agriculture consultant for Understanding Ag and a student of soil. His roots are planted in Northeast Iowa where he co-owned and operated a family dairy farm. Brian was a 2018 Nuffield Farming Scholar and studied the intersection of soil health, water quality, and nutrient management, with a focus on the fundamental importance of soil health and related global efforts to regenerate agricultural soils. He is now an operating partner at Wild Type Ranch in Southwest Wisconsin, a direct-to-consumer pastured protein business. He applies his passion for working with nature and his background as a farmer and agricultural engineer to help heal broken nutrient, water, and energy cycles to make regenerative food production a reality and make farming fun again.
Susan Garey
Secretary
DELAWARE
Ed Kee
Past-President
DELAWARE
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Archie Griffin
NORTH CAROLINA
Patrick Dudley
TEXAS
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John Chandler
CALIFORNIA
Mark Coelho
CALIFORNIA
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Mark is responsible for all investment and management activity for the Nuveen Natural Capital horticulture portfolio. Mark has been involved in agriculture investment and management professionally since 2005. Prior to joining Nuveen Natural Capital in 2015, he served as an Associate Director at MetLife Agricultural Investments and later held an executive role with one of California’s largest permanent crop growers. Mark graduated, summa cum laude, with department honors in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Georgie Cartanza
DELAWARE
Ruth McCabe
Vice President
IOWA
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Ruth McCabe leads the Conservation Team at Heartland Co-op. She is a passionate advocate for sustainable farming practices in the Midwest and has devoted her career to working with farmers who want to adopt conservation into their management plans. Ruth is a Certified Professional Agronomist, an Iowa CCA, and has her M.S. in Crop Production and Physiology from Iowa State University. Prior to her current role, Ruth worked as a technical agronomist, organic agronomist and research agronomist around the Midwest for over a decade. She was also a 2022 Nuffield International Farming Scholar studying conservation farming adoption in major grain producing countries around the world. Her favorite topic to talk about is pheasant hunting and she specializes in cover crops, prairie management, and edge-of-field structures.