NACD 2025 Summer Meeting: Full Schedule

8:30am CDT

Conservation Forum

Monday July 28, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am CDT

Speakers

Lance Irving

Vice President, Leopold Conservation Award, Sand County Foundation

Lance Irving took the helm of Sand County Foundation’s Leopold Conservation Award Program in 2016 after more than 15 years of experience in the outdoor sporting goods industry, and prior to that as a professional wilderness hunting and fishing guide. As chief sales and marketing... Read More →

Monday July 28, 2025 8:30am - 10:00am CDT

NACD Programming

12:00pm CDT

Luncheon

Monday July 28, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT

Speakers

Mike Lessiter

President, Lessiter Media and The Conservation Ag Foundation

Mike Lessiter, a second-generation agriculture journalist, worked in trade media in Illinois for 12 years before returning to his parents’ family publishing company, Lessiter Media, in Brookfield, Wisconsin. His father, Frank, produced the first edition of No-Till Farmer in 1972... Read More →