Dr. Ed Bonnette received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in science at the Ohio State University. He completed his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech and is board-certified by the American College of Animal Nutrition.

Dr. Bonnette makes it his goal each day to develop or employ tools and products that will make customers’ lives easier and better and to help them achieve success with their animals.

Although he grew up milking cows on a small dairy and beef farm, Dr. Bonnette’s career has been spent working extensively with animals that do not “oink or moo,” as he would tell you. He has spent most of his career serving as a nutritionist for pets and specialty animals, as well as some less traditional farm animals. He has also served as an assistant professor of animal science at the University of Findlay.

“Whether I go to a farm to solve a nutrition or management concern, write an article to explain a nutrition topic or speak to a group of 4-Hers, I still get excited about the chance to help someone,” Dr. Bonnette said. “To see someone I’ve helped achieve their goals and experience success is always a great day for me and motivates me to do more.”

Rebecca Kopping is a lifestyle sales representative with Hubbard Feeds. She received a business degree with a focus on marketing and a minor in public relations and advertising from Lewis University. Prior to joining the Hubbard team, she helped manage her family’s horse stable, located in Lemont, Illinois, near Chicago. Rebecca’s family horse farm, Kopping Farms, which houses more than 100 horses, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2020.

Rebecca has extensive experience showing quarter horses on a national level, and as a youth, she was a multiple AQHYA World Show qualifier and an AQHYA World Show finalist in the hunter under saddle. While showing as an adult amateur over the past five years, Rebecca has earned multiple top-five and top-10 placings at the All-American Quarter Horse Congress and National Snaffle Bit Association World Show in the two- and three-year-old hunter under saddle futurity classes.

Brian Springer has 30 years of experience in agronomy and has been involved in everything from increasing sales in retail locations to building new businesses in the venture capital arena. His passion for discovering unique technologies and integrating them into current production methods has led to the development of unique brands and solutions for the farmer in several exciting product debuts.

With more than 20 years of experience as a certified crop adviser, Springer has worked with all major row crops and most fruits and vegetables, as well as several specialty and emerging crops, from potatoes and canola in Canada to citrus and bananas in Costa Rica.

Springer received a degree in agricultural business from Southwest Missouri State University. He currently lives in northwest Missouri with his wife and three children and travels across North America in support of the Alltech Crop Science sales force and their customers.