Growing up on a farm in Pittsfield, Illinois, Ryan has always been passionate about agriculture. His family’s operation spanned corn and soybeans, as well as a feed to finish hog confinement barn and a pure-bred Black Angus cattle herd. He always knew that agriculture was the industry he wanted to be a part of because of how unique the people are that make farming what it is today. Ryan attained a degree in Crop Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joined Advanced Agrilytics, where offering a proactive stance on agronomic management for customers is what really drives him to get out in the field every day.