Keynote & Wrap-up Speaker

R.L. "Dick" Wittman
Wittman Consulting
37737 McCormack Ridge Road Culdesac, ID 83524
PH: (208) 843-5595 C: (208) 305-1344 C: (208) 299-3521 FAX: (208) 843-5095
dwittman-at-lewiston.com

Wittman manages an 18,000-acre Idaho family farm partnership involving crops, cattle and timber and provides consulting services and seminars in family farm business and financial management in the US and abroad. A former FCS lender, he’s also served on numerous commodity and financial institution boards; is a director and past president of the Farm Financial Standards Council and past president of the PNW Direct Seed Association. He also serves on the Ag Working Group on Carbon Trading which is providing education and policy development leadership in climate change legislation that impacts agricultural marketing opportunities.

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Education
M.S., University of Utah

Dr. Wayne A. Hayenga
Professor Emeritus, Extension Economist, Attorney
Agricultural Economics Department
Room 315, Blocker Building
Texas A&M University
2124 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2124
(979) 845-2226
w-hayenga-at-tamu.edu

Teacher/Lawyer

As a teacher, since 1972 Wayne has been employed by AgriLIFE Extension, Texas A&M System. His primary activities are in teaching and coordinating educational programs in estate and income tax management. In years past, he was involved in agricultural finance and other agribusiness educational programs.

A sought after teacher and speaker throughout the state, in the past several years he has discussed estate planning and other legal topics with many professional organizations and business owner groups. Among other awards, he has received the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award from the Former Students Association of Texas A&M University and a Presidential Citation from the State Bar of Texas.

Raised on a farm in Illinois, he was active in 4-H and FFA as a youth. He studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois (B.S. and M.S.) and received an M.B.A. in Finance and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University. He has a J.D. from Southern Methodist University.

Wayne and his wife, Pam, have four boys.

Dr. Don J. Jonovic
Family Business Management Services
Post Office Box 201400, Cleveland, Ohio 44120
216/752-7970
FAX: 216/752-4100
djonovic-at-familybusinessmgt.com


DONALD J. JONOVIC, Ph.D., an advisor to business owners since 1973, focuses on the unique issues related to management development, growth and ownership transition in the successful owner-managed business. His professional consulting practice has included industrial and agricultural clients throughout North America, ranging in size from $1 million to $2 billion, with an emphasis on companies transitioning to management teams, including those with a significant proportion of non-family key managers.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION. Dr. Jonovic’s expertise covers a range of areas, including:
• Development and management of share holder communication processes
• Establishment of owner/partner policies, including risk and return standards
• Creation of comprehensive shareholder and partner agreements
• Transition of management to successors related or unrelated to current owners
• Development of key management teams
• Design and implementation of shareholder value-directed compensation systems
• Formation and management of boards and advisory teams
• Facilitation of business planning and strategic positioning projects

BOARD SERVICE. He has helped to create, and serves on and chairs numerous advisory and formal boards in closely held businesses. In his board service, Dr. Jonovic chairs a number of compensation committees, and has been in strumental in the creation and implementation of incentive and growth-participation compensation plans for key managers. He also serves on strategic planning committees, frequently acting as facilitator of management, strategic planning, and positioning sessions.

Dr. Danny Klinefelter
Professor and Extension Economist
Texas A&M University
(979) 845-7171
danklinefelter@tamuk.edu

Professor and Extension Economist at Texas A&M University, specializing in agricultural finance and management development. He is the director of The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers (TEPAP) and co-director of the Texas A&M Family and Owner-Managed Business. In addition, he serves as the Executive Secretary for the Association of Agricultural Production Executives (AAPEX). He is also coordinator of the Planning the Return to the Farm Program. He is a member of the board of Ag Texas Farm Credit Services.

Danny received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois in 1979, where he was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow. Prior to his graduate work, he spent five years in commercial lending, credit analysis, and farm management with the Marine Bank of Springfield, Illinois. In addition to his Ph.D., he also received his M.S. from the University of Illinois in 1971. He graduated summa cum laude from Southern Illinois University with a B.S. in 1969.

The entertainment career of Red Steagall has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, to South America and to the Far East. He has performed for heads of state including a special party for President Reagan at the White House in 1983, and has completed three overseas tours for the United States Information Agency to the Middle East, the Far East, and South America.

As a native Texan, Red Steagall enjoyed a career in Agricultural Chemistry after graduating from West Texas State University with a degree in Animal Science and Agronomy. He then spent eight years as a music industry executive in Hollywood, California and has spent the last thirty years as a recording artist, songwriter, and television and motion picture personality. He currently offices outside of Fort Worth, Texas where in addition to his entertainment activities, he is currently involved in the production of motion pictures and television shows.

Although Red Steagall is best known for his wonderful Texas Swing dance music and such songs as "Here We Go Again", "Party Dolls and Wine", "Freckles Brown", and "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music", Red is beloved by Texas cowboys for the quiet times they have spent with him around chuck wagon campfires. In their opinion, Red Steagall's best music has never been heard by the public. And, if you ask Red where his favorite place to play music is, he might say some famous stage in Nashville, California, Spain, or Germany - or he might say some lonesome cow camp in West Texas.

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