• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Gary Matteson

Farm Credit Council

S.V.P, Beginning Farmer Programs and Outreach

Gary Matteson works for Farm Credit’s trade association in Washington, DC as Senior Vice President, Beginning Farmer Programs and Outreach.  This includes policy work on local foods, sustainable agriculture, and direct-to-consumer agriculture. He is an advocate for young, beginning, small, and minority farmer outreach programs. This includes work on emerging opportunities in local foods, direct-to-consumer agriculture, and generational transition of farm businesses.  He has researched, designed curricula, and taught financial and business planning skills for more than fifteen years to thousands of beginning farmers in conferences, seminars, webinars, and college classrooms.  Mr. Matteson specializes in making basic business concepts approachable and relevant to beginning farmers.For thirty years Gary was a small farmer raising greenhouse wholesale cut flowers marketed in the Northeast and beef cattle for local sales.  He has served on numerous boards of directors including Farm Credit, Farmer Veteran Coalition, Farmers Market Coalition, Native Agriculture Financial Services, and many other non-profits.

Sessions With Gary Matteson

Wednesday, 20 March

  • 12:00pm - 12:50pm (CST) / 20/mar/2024 05:00 pm - 20/mar/2024 05:50 pm

    Integration of Refining and Agriculture: How will these industries change together?
    Transportation & Mobility/Electrification (EVs/built environment)

    Policy is driving the liquid fuels business to invest in lower-carbon intensity products and processing. As a result, the refining and agricultural industries have begun integrating to form new supply chains. What will be the impact on agriculture? Are Iowa, Mato Grosso and Saskatchewan the “new” Permian Basins?  How will two industries with significant size differences and very different commodity cycles manage risk? Will emerging ventures make headway in cultivating new feedstock for advanced fuels?  

Thursday, 21 March

  • 09:30am - 10:00am (CST) / 21/mar/2024 02:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 03:00 pm

    The Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    The quality of natural carbon sinks as used in carbon markets attract scrutiny when used as carbon offsets. Meanwhile, new approaches in soil sequestration through low-carbon agricultural feedstocks offer opportunities to offset scope 3 emissions in the agricultural value chain, with new investment from both agriculture and oil / energy companies. What is the state of science for estimating the carbon impact of these new agricultural technologies? What potential scale do these technologies have? What partnerships are needed to accelerate innovation in this area?  

  • 04:30pm - 05:10pm (CST) / 21/mar/2024 09:30 pm - 21/mar/2024 10:10 pm

    Balancing the Appetite for Food AND Fuel
    Agribusiness & Biofuels

    As the demand for biofuel grows, the agriculture and feedstock industries have started to gear up to meet the new demand and balance it with on-going food consumption which has and continues to be the major market for agricultural products. Balancing food and fuel have brought a wave of expansion for vegetable oil production, redirected trade flows of fats and grease, driven a new era of innovation to expand feedstock output and lowered the carbon footprint of agricultural products for food and biofuels. How are the agriculture, food and biofuel sectors balancing the appetite for multiple agricultural products?