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Adam Parker & Henry Prinzen

ADAM PARKER, CCA-ON
Market Development Agronomist – Western Ontario North

Adam has a strong agricultural background with excellent agronomic skills. He brings to Maizex his education and expertise, which includes a Diploma in Agriculture from the University of Guelph – Ridgetown Campus and a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Guelph. Additionally, Adam is a Certified Crop Advisor. Prior to joining Maizex, he served as a sales agronomist at Sharpe’s Farm Supply. Adam also operates a sheep and cash crop farm with his family near Guelph, ON.

HENRY PRINZEN, CCA-ON
Market Development Agronomist – Western Ontario South & Eastern Ontario

Henry established his roots in agriculture on his family cash crop and farrow to finish farm operation located near Jarvis, ON, where he is still involved today. Henry holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Guelph where he graduated with distinction with a Crop Science Major. Henry is also a Certified Crop Advisor and is well-respected for his agronomic insight and product positioning.

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Moe Agostino

Moe has over 42+ years of experience in trading markets, commodity risk management and marketing, the last 20 years with Farms.com Risk Management. His primary areas of expertise include grains, basis, livestock, feed, futures/options, energy/diesel, fertilizer/input purchases and both technical and fundamental analysis with a global and local market perspective.

Farms.com Risk Management is a Commodity Research Boutique specializing in providing commodity market information and insight to farmers and agribusinesses across North America.

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Andres Hurtado

Andres Hurtado is the co-founder of Terranova UAV, an agricultural drone service company. Terranova UAV provides precision agriculture services by integrating different technologies such as multispectral imagery, drone imagery, photogrammetry, and AI to help farmers reduce costs, emissions and increase yields.

Andres is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of engineering and project management experience. He attained his Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering at the University of Antioquia in Colombia in 2007 and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Ivey Business School at Western University in 2015, where he completed a certification in entrepreneurship.

During his time at Western, Andres taught and coached undergraduate students in entrepreneurship and business at the Baikal State University in Irkutsk, Russia.

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Jordan Wallace

Advanced Solutions Technology Specialist.
GPS Ontario

Growing up on a Family Farm in North Gower, Ontario. Precision Agriculture Solutions, progressed from a necessity to an addiction, GPS Ontario formed in 2000 when Jordan and his Father Morley branched out into a full solution provider for Precision agriculture Systems. With a strong focus on providing outstanding service and support for mixed fleets of equipment they soon moved from Infield Hardware Solutions into a Full Farm offering.

Providing Ontario growers the only complete, Precision Ag Solution from guidance solutions to on farm data management. Jordan takes farming to the next level by leveraging accuracy and data on his family farm to show higher then normal ROI’s using next generation farming techniques and solutions.

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