Advice for a Keynote…And it’s funny!

Today my good friend Shelly and I gave a keynote for Dunn Carney’s Ag Summit. It was such a great opportunity and we both really enjoyed ourselves.

I hope that folks got something from our message. I also have to say that preparing for something like this, as you would imagine includes quite the process. What to speak about, how to speak well together and inevitably how to look good while together up on stage.

So to expand more on the clothes part…we both have a sort of go to outfit that we know we both feel good in. We are farmers, so our business attire is far from vast! So we decided the night before, this is what we were going to look like…This photo was taken a few months ago at a farm bureau event at the same location as today. No big deal right?  Well here’s the kicker folks. We did not realize that this picture, these outfits would be used in the handbook passed out to everyone. So today we look EXACTLY the same as our photo. We are dying!!!! It’s hilarious!!!!!  But maybe it was on purpose, I mean you need to be recognizable and consistent in your story right?! (This was not on purpose hahahaha!)

So my advice…maybe try to mix it up a bit…and if you get caught with…hmm…the same pants on, you might as well own it!

AM Northwest


My busy week was capped off last Friday with a pretty cool experience. Another farmer, Jesse Rue and myself made the trek up to Portland to go on live TV and talk about grass seed and family farming!

I say trek because it was during some pretty great winter blast moments. The roads weren’t too bad, just the side streets. Which proved almost too much for me and my heels!

All that shiny business…is ice!! So Jesse and I walked, skated, mostly just slowly scooted along the icey sidewalks to get into the studio…we looked like 90 years olds we were walking SO slow!

Here is a link to our segment!

AM Northwest, KATU

It was a very cool experience to shoot live TV and talk about what I am so passionate about! Here are just a few facts that we covered…

  • 98% of farms in Oregon are family owned.
  • There are also 1174 century farms (over 100 years old) here!
  • Grass seed production takes up 400k acres in Oregon. 90% of those acres are in the Willamette Valley.
  • Grass seed provides $1.2 billion to Oregon’s economy.
  • Grass seed as an industry provides over 10,000 jobs in Oregon.
  • Grass has great environmental benefits.  Erosion control, soil cooling, and water filtration.

To learn more great things about Oregon grass seed check out Oregon Seed Council’s website: www.oregonseedcouncil.org.

Home…

After 5 days of dressing up, 5 days of heels, 5 days of having to look, well, not like the usual farmer. And I can’t even tell you how happy I am to be in my Tshirt  and jeans hanging with these handsome fellas!


Yay…and a snow day!!! I’ll catch up with updates on how the past wild week went later…until then I’ll be busy with my two wild men who I’ve missed!


One of which is going to turn 1 tomorrow!!!!! Davor “Auggie” is one growing boy!


Happy Friday folks!