Dr. Jay Lehr has spent the last year raising the visibility and bright new future of agriculture before dozens of diverse audiences all across North America who are just now waking up to the facts that farm price supports may be a thing of the past with the vast new demand for food across a rapidly growing affluent public in countries around the globe. Sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, he explains how agriculture is no longer a forgotten industry but now on the minds of societies everywhere. His half century of varied work within the farming industry has given him a highly sought after crystal ball with which he predicts the future based on precise knowledge of the past as well as distinctive current trends. In his diverse presentations tailored specifically to the needs of the groups engaging his expertise he often speaks to: technologies that will enable us to feed the world's growing population better than ever before, new demands for healthier and more nutritious food, where imports and exports will hold sway, how world conflicts can affect food supplies, the role of limited water supplies in controlling agricultural production, population trends around the world, emerging and subsiding national strengths, the new and lasting focus on sustainable agriculture, the forces that oppose high yield agriculture and how they can be thwarted, what nations can do to protect their food supplies from terrorism, amazing advances on the drawing boards for genetically modified crops, and telecommunication revolutions in agriculture. Jay offers groups a lengthy menu of topical information to insure that every minute of his presentation speaks to the needs of his audiences. In the past yeasr he has spoken to a broad array of groups from bankers to chemical companies, growers and manufacturers, universities and government agencies. His reviews are always outstanding and his impacts on his audiences are measureable in their universal ability to put his information to work. Additionally, Jay Lehr ran a Trade and Professional Society of Environmental Scientists for 25 years after which he founded and sold two education companies to Fortune 500 Corporations. He has written 14 books and over 400 journal articles in his fields of expertise. His books are his "Handbook of Environmental Science," "Health & Technology" and his "Handbook of Complex Environmental Remediation Problems." He is also the author of "Satellite Investigations of Ground Water Resources" and a four-volume "Encyclopedia of Water. Titles The Farm Today World Food Supply Precision Agriculture Reduced Tillage Ethanol Production Biodiesel The Green Movement Sustainability Biotechnology Organic Food Topics Success, Environment/Green, Motivation, Ethics, Science/Space Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $5,000 - $7,499 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State OH Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.