Seeking Leaders in Conservation Agriculture for CTIC Hall of Fame

Feb 13, 2025

Nominations are now open for inducting innovators, trailblazers, mentors, and other contributors to conservation agriculture into the 2025 CTIC Hall of Fame. The ideal nominee has contributed to CTIC’s mission as a member, former board director, partner or former staff; advanced conservation agriculture regionally or nationally; or led by example as a farmer innovator.

Recent CTIC Hall of Fame inductees include:

2024: Linda Prokopy (pictured above with CTIC Executive Director Ryan Heiniger), Purdue University, whose career has been dedicated to understanding the social science of agricultural conservation, agricultural adaptation to climate change, and watershed management
2023: Frank Lessiter, Chairman and Editorial Director for Lessiter Media, which publishes No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, and Cover Crop Strategies
2022: Dick Foell, CTIC founder and long-time board member; Dan Towery, former CTIC natural resources specialist; and Karen Scanlon, former CTIC executive director.

The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is part of the Conservation in Action Tour, a celebration of conservation agriculture and the people who have helped advance information, advocacy and implementation of conservation ag practices. See more on our agenda page, and don’t forget to nominate Hall of Fame candidates here! Deadline for nominations is March 7.

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Video: Is China Buying US Soybeans + USDA Nov 14th Crop Report could be “Game Changing”

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U.S. government shutdown is now the longest in history at 38 days.
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The funds continued their selling in live and feeder cattle futures on continued fears that the Trump administration want to lower U.S. beef prices. The fundamentals have not changed, only market psychology has.
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After 34 new record highs in the S & P 500 and 124 new records in the NASDAQ in 2025 we are back to a correction and investor profit taking as AI valuations may have gotten too stretched near-term ahead of NVDA’s 3rd quarter earnings announcement on Nov. 19th. But this is not an AI bubble.
75% of Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk!
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