Members and Board of Directors

Auburn University was established in 1856 and in 1872 became the first land-grant college in the South.  Today, Auburn is one of the few universities to carry the torch as a land, sea and space grant university.  Auburn University remains in the educational forefront with its traditional blend of arts and applied science, and changing with the needs of today while living with a respect for the traditions and spirit that are Auburn.  In Auburn’s College of Agriculture, we address world-shaping issues in health, economics, global politics, ecology, energy and commerce.  Throughout its 139-year history, the College has helped advance Alabama’s agricultural economy while improving the nutrition, health and standard of living for all citizens. 

Crop IMS LLC may be a tiny company, but since its inception in 2004, it has become a significant contributor to all things related to information technologies and its impact to US producers.   Crop IMS offers retail and wholesale technology and agronomy services across the Midwest and other areas of the country too.  Crop IMS’s twenty-three employees situated in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin embody the innovative approach to bringing value to the industry. Crop IMS LLC is owned by five farmer-owned input supply cooperatives located in Illinois and Indiana.  Through its participation and leadership in AgGateway, Ag Data Transparency Evaluator, Inc. and other industry groups, Crop IMS helps forward its mission of increasing profitability for producers and those work with producers.  For more information, please visit www.cropims.com.

GreenPoint Ag Holdings, LLC is an American-owned agricultural input supplier, resulting from three financially strong businesses coming together to better serve farmers and rural communities of the Southeastern U.S. 

We are a top 5 wholesale and retail agronomy company with over $1 billion in sales. We service farms and rural businesses in the areas of crop nutrients, crop protection products, seed and professional products. We also offer seed treatment, field scouting, soil sampling, tissue sampling, custom application and a full array of ag technology services including our GreenPoint Ag Sustain program. 

GreenPoint Ag operates 99 retail and wholesale agronomy locations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas. Based in Decatur, Alabama, we also have regional offices in Memphis and LaVergne, Tennessee. 

Our three parent companies are Alabama Farmers Cooperative (AFC), Tennessee Farmers Cooperative (TFC), and WinField United.

Founded in 1910, Ice Miller LLP has a nationally recognized reputation in many of its practice areas. Ice Miller is a full-service firm with the resources it needs to counsel its clients and deliver quality legal advice. Ice Miller’s Food and Agribusiness Practice includes attorneys and agribusiness professionals with a variety of backgrounds who represent food and agriculture companies across the country while monitoring the issues facing the industry. We help our clients, who span the food and agricultural value chain, to manage risk, identify and protect assets, identify new business opportunities and protect and adopt innovative technologies.

Kansas State University

Established in 1878 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi, Mississippi State University today continues to excel in its original mission of education, research, and service. The study of agriculture, a founding basis for the institution, was formalized into a college in 1903.  The present-day College of Agriculture and Life Science (CALS) presents a broad array of opportunities for the study of life, encompassing 9 schools and departments. Together, they offer 16 majors and 46 concentrations for undergraduates and 10 majors and 30 concentrations for graduate degrees.  The College is also closely associated with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MAFES) and the Mississippi State University Extension Service, which both share knowledge and solutions with farmers, business people, and government agencies throughout the state and beyond.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) is a land-grant university chartered in 1689. UNL is a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) at UNL focuses on people, and the food, water and natural resources that sustain them. IANR innovation in research, teaching and extension education places Nebraska on the leading edge of food production, environmental stewardship, human nutrition, business development and youth engagement. Composed of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR), the Agricultural Research Division (ARD), UNL Extension, and the ARD and Extension components of three departments in the College of Education and Human Sciences; IANR is committed to growing the future of Nebraska’s people, businesses, and communities.

The Ohio State University’s main Columbus campus is one of America’s largest and most comprehensive. More than 58,000 students select from 15 colleges, 200 undergraduate majors, and 250 masters, doctoral, and professional degree programs attend.  Of the 15 colleges, The College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) at The Ohio State University encompasses three important mission areas: academics, research, and extension. The CFAES vision is to sustain life through production efficiency and technologies, food safety and security, economic and policy analysis, and preservation of the environment, ecosystems, and water quality. To learn more about CFAES, visit cfaes.osu.edu.  Within CFAES, The Ohio State University Digital Ag Program strives to be the premier source of research-based information in the age of digital agriculture. The central focus of the program is the interaction of automation, sensing and data analytics to optimize crop production while addressing environmental quality, sustainability and profitability. To learn more about the Digital Ag Program, visit digitalag.osu.edu.

Additional information can be found at www.osu.edu and www.fabe.osu.edu.

Purdue University is Indiana’s land grant institution with research, teaching, and Extension at its core.  Its engineering, aviation, and agricultural programs are highly ranked and recognized worldwide.  The West Lafayette campus is home to about 30,000 undergraduate students, 10,000 graduate students, and 3,000 faculty and staff.  The College of Agriculture is ranked ninth in the world (2018 QS World University Rankings), Agricultural and Biological Engineering is ranked first (2019 US News & World Report) and the Agricultural Economics program fourth (2017 Center for World University Rankings).  There are about 2800 undergraduate students in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Agronomy, Animal Sciences, Biochemistry, Botany & Plant Pathology, Entomology, Food Science, Forestry, and Horticulture & Landscape Architecture.  For more information:  https://ag.purdue.edu/

Topcon Positioning Group is headquartered in Livermore, California, USA (topconpositioning.com). Topcon Positioning Group designs, manufactures and distributes precise positioning products and solutions for the global surveying, construction, agriculture, civil engineering, BIM, mapping and GIS, asset management and mobile control markets.  Its brands include Topcon, Sokkia, Tierra, Wachendorff Elektronik, Digi-Star, RDS Technology, NORAC and 2LS. Topcon Corporation (topcon.com), founded in 1932, is traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (7732).