Benny is a national leader in advocating for farm families and saving farms that would otherwise be lost to foreclosure. For more than 20 years, family farmers in crisis have turned to Benny for help. He provides farmers with a broad array of advocacy services, including financial counseling, legal referrals, and technical assistance. Benny counsels between 75 and 100 farmers each year and devotes 60 hours to each client, on average. In more than 90% of the cases he works on, Benny helps farmers realize their goals and achieve greater stability. In 2008, Benny was awarded the prestigious Nancy Susan Reynolds Award for Personal Service. He serves as Lead Farmer Advocate for the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA).

Betsy is the National Agronomist with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). She works out of Washington, DC providing input on policy interpretations, developing conservation practices, and keeping up to date with innovative technologies in agriculture. Betsy received her PhD in Agriculture Communication and Education/Soil Science from the University of Nebraska. Her master’s degree work was at Oklahoma State University in Soil Genesis and Geomorphology. She attended Illinois State University for her bachelor's degree in Agriculture Science. Betsy has been with NRCS since 2005, first as a Grassland Forage Agronomist and then as a State Resource Conservationist. Prior to joining NRCS, Betsy served as an Agriculture Educator for Michigan State University in Livingston and Ingham counties.

LyTanya Brown received her B.S. degree in Behavioral Science from University of Maryland University College. She received her Juris Doctor from Southern University Law Center. While attending SULC, she served as the Teacher’s Assistant in the Mediation Clinic and conducted mediations in such areas as peer-peer, landlord/tenant, agriculture, and family issues. She also co-founded Southern University Law Center’s Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty, which became Southern University Law Center’s second Law Journal. After graduating Southern University Law Center, LyTanya Brown pursued a career in Mediation and obtained approval from the Governor of the State of Mississippi to create Mississippi’s first Certified Agricultural Mediation Program, which is administered by Mississippi Association of Cooperatives, where she has served as Director for the past eleven years. She was also very instrumental in obtaining certification for the Georgia Agricultural Mediation Program and the Louisiana Agricultural Mediation Program, which is administered by the Federation of Southern Cooperatives. Over the years, LyTanya has conducted hundreds of mediations, which has resulted in the preservation of hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of land, totaling millions of dollars.