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WHO THIS IS FOR
Your Audience Is Ready for a Voice That Isn't Selling Them Anything
David's agriculture speaking engagements are built for event organizers, conference planners, universities, and community organizations who want something different on their stage. This is the right fit if:
You are planning an agriculture, rural development, cooperative, or agribusiness conference and need a keynote that sparks real conversation, not a polished product pitch.
You are tired of vendor-sponsored speakers whose advice is filtered through what they are trying to sell.
You are a university or college with an agriculture, business, or rural development program and you want a speaker who will challenge your students and leave them fired up.
You want your audience to laugh, think, and leave with something they will actually use.
You are a regional economic development organization, chamber of commerce, or community group trying to get people off the sidelines and into action.
David does not speak to fill a time slot. He speaks to change something in the room.
PRESENTATION TOPICS
Agriculture Speaking Topics That Disrupt, Educate, and Activate
David's presentations draw on thirty years of agriculture consulting, community development, and cooperative strategy experience. Each engagement is tailored to your audience and goals. Core topic areas include:
The Co-Op Model:
Why Your Neighbor Is Not Your Competition
The cooperative ownership model works. David has helped build it, watched it thrive, and seen it abandoned. This presentation makes the case with real numbers, real stories, and real urgency for why producers need to stop competing against each other and start building together.
Rural America Is Not Dead:
Stop Acting Like It Is
Communities across the country are watching their schools close, their young people leave, and their economic base erode. This presentation challenges the victim narrative, introduces a proven community investment framework, and sends audiences home with a plan instead of a eulogy.
The Playbook Nobody Gave You: Value-Added Agriculture and What It Actually Takes
A no-nonsense breakdown of the value-added agriculture opportunity: what works, what does not, and what the industry does not want you to figure out on your own.
Rethinking Agricultural Education: What We're Teaching Wrong and Why It Matters
Designed for university and college audiences, this presentation takes an honest look at the gap between what agricultural programs are teaching and what the industry actually needs and hands the next generation the tools to bridge it.
Farmer Sovereignty: Owning the Outcome from Field to Market
An energizing exploration of what it looks like when farmers own more of what they grow and build economic ecosystems that keep value in their communities.
Custom and Keynote Formats Available
David works with event organizers to build presentations that fit your audience, your theme, and your goals. From short breakout sessions to full length keynotes, agriculture speaking engagements are built around outcomes.
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