Speaking Topics 2008

Speaking Topics

The menu of topics below can provide the basis to deliver an insightful message for a speaking engagement.  Each speaking engagement can be catered to the audience's interest and background and to the degree of specificity.

  • "Integrated Resource Management" - The reconvergence of production resource and natural resource management

  • Ag and Natural Resource Management - Dependent on an On-the-Ground Presence

  • Performance-based Farming - Bushels per acre and Resource Outcome Indices

  • Assessing, Valuating and Communicating Outcomes - Basis for a Market Economy

  • Farmers as 'Conservation Suppliers' vs 'Conservation Customers'

  • The Continuum of Resource Management Outcomes in Biomass Production -    From corn stover to perennial prairie 

  • Unleashing 'Working Lands' programs to trend toward Outcomes

  • Emerging constraints on the 'Conservation Delivery System'

  • Agricultural Professionals in the 'Conservation Delivery System'

  • Thinking outside the 'Building' to create a Conservation Commerce

  • Building Public-Private Resource Management Systems from the Ground Up

 

Throughout his career, Tim Gieseke has engaged audiences with provocative ideas and presented his perspective through speaking engagements.  Often referring to his recent work as reconnaissance policy work, Tim takes extra steps to search for new ideas that resonate with the people that will be directly impacted by policy proposals.  No single person develops or even conceives of new ideas alone.  The above mentioned topics reflect Tim’s perspective on the "thinking" of dozens of organizations, entities and people involved in agriculture’s past and present