Speaker Category: Main Speakers
Earl Roemer
Earl Roemer is a fourth-generation agricultural producer and businessman from West Central Kansas with backgrounds in both animal and plant science. Earl has held state and national leadership roles in both the State of Kansas and National Sorghum Industry Organizations. Earl is the Founder and President of Nu Life Market. This company focuses on the production, milling, and processing of specific sorghum grains containing defined quality and chemistry characteristics for applications in the food and beverage industries. The sorghum grains utilized by Nu Life Market are produced under an extremely strict identity preservation and regenerative production management system by their team of growers to reduce carbon and other green-house gases being released into the atmosphere along with utilizing less of our natural resources in the production of the sorghum grains milled by this food company.
Ellen King
Ellen King, co-owner and director of baking operations at Hewn Bread (Evanston, IL and Libertyville, IL) got into bread making sort of by chance. After attending culinary school on the West Coast and working…
Glenn Roberts
Glenn Roberts founded Anson Mills in 1998 in Charleston, South Carolina, to rematriate lost foods of the 18th and 19th century Southern Pantry. Today, Anson Mills grows and produces artisan organic landrace grain, legume…
Mark Askegaard & Beth McConnon
Askegaard Organic Farm is a 6th generation family farm operated by Mark Askegaard & his daughter, Beth McConnon. The farm is located south of Moorhead, MN and encompasses approximately 980 tillable acres. The farm…
Patrick Wylie
Patrick has been at Baker’s Field Flour and Bread for the last five and a half years. He started out with zero experience and acquired all of his baking and milling knowledge at Baker’s…
Chris MacLeod
Chris MacLeod is co-owner of Laune Bread, a bakery in South Minneapolis focused on supporting local farmers & millers, whole grains, & sourdough bread. Our breads & pastries blend west coast American and German…
Mala Ganiger
Mala Ganiger is R&D lead for Minn-Dak Growers Ltd., located in Grand Forks, ND. This company specializes in buckwheat and mustard milling in the food-based industry. Her responsibilities revolve around buckwheat breeding projects, focusing…
Alyssa Walters
Alyssa Walters is the R&D Research Chef at the premier flour-milling and ingredient company Ardent Mills. In this role, Alyssa creates innovative prototypes and recipes, develops customer solutions with both Traditional Flour and Emerging…
Angie Echols
Angie Echols is local to the area, residing in Monticello, MN. She is the Food Security & Regulatory Compliance Manager at Bay State Milling Company, a food ingredient manufacturing company, with 9 US and…
Andrew Heyn
Andrew Heyn owns Elmore Mountain Bread with his wife, Blair Marvin in Northern Vermont. They bake wood-fired breads using stone ground local grain. Andrew designed and built his own mill for their bakery, and…