WINTER CONFERENCE

SAVE THE DATE

Mark your calendar for this year’s Winter Conference. With a strong reputation for providing growers with field study and local trial data, the newest technology, and connections with key vendors and experts, our annual Winter Conference is a day you won’t want to miss.

Date: Thursday, January 9
Location: Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm

View the event’s agenda here!

CHAD GREENWAY

Meet Our Keynote Speaker

A native son of South Dakota. Chad Greenway was born and raised on a hog, cattle, and crop farm in Mt. Vernon, SD. He learned the value of hard work, resiliency, and perseverance working daily on the family farm. Growing up in a small rural community Greenway was thrust into leadership positions at an early age on the farm and in the community.

In the 2006 NFL Draft Chad was drafted #17 overall in the first round by the Minnesota Vikings. Greenway played 11 seasons in the NFL all of which were with the Vikings. Greenway was All-Pro, Pro-Bowl, and a long tenured Captain of the Vikings during his career. Greenway was named Vikings Man of the Year four times and was the NFLPA’s winner of the prestigious Byron “Whizzer” White award for his charitable contributions during his career.

Since his retirement from the NFL in 2017 Greenway has stayed active in the Twin Cities as President of his family’s Lead the Foundation which launched in 2010 and is still active in supporting families and kids across the upper midwest. He has also became Partner with two different companies over the past 5 years. (Gray Duck Spirits, Bankshot Solutions)

Greenway resides in Wayzata, Mn with his wife Jennifer and four daughters and is active in training, coaching and being a dad to his girls.