SPGCA 13th Annual Field Day 2021

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Bill Hodge of Sustainable Genetics --One of our Keynote Speakers

William M. (Bill) Hodge grew up on a diversified farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and has over 60 years’ hands-on experience in the livestock industry. His undergraduate studies were done at Texas A&M & Virginia Tech. He completed graduate studies at the University of Georgia and retired from UGA Cooperative Extension as Senior Public Service Associate. Bill currently serves as Board Chairman of the GA Agricultural Land Trust, Chairman Emeritus of the GA Grazing Lands Conservation Coalition as well as past Chairman of the Carroll County GA Chamber of Commerce. He has made over 100 invited presentations throughout the United States & Canada speaking about meat animal grazing genetics & regenerative agricultural systems. In 2004, Bill co-founded Sustainable Genetics, LLC, a pasture-based beef & dairy genetics marketing company that focuses on optimal maternal efficiency in total forage systems. Bill and his wife Di have five grandsons and in their spare time they maintain a small, minimal input Red Angus seedstock herd selected on Bonsma principals.