Allen Williams, Ph.D. — Partner, Understanding Ag

Dr. Williams is one of the world’s foremost experts in regenerative agriculture. He is a 6th generation family farmer and founding partner of Grass Fed Insights, LLC, Understanding Ag, LLC, and the Soil Health Academy. He has consulted with more than 4,000 farmers and has worked in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, and other countries, on operations ranging from a few acres to over 2 million acres collectively spanning over 25 million acres. Through Understanding Ag and other projects, he has worked with companies including General Mills, Danone, Foremost Nestle, Whole Foods, Kroger, Publix, HEB, Turner Ranches, Thousand Hills, Country Natural Beef, Meyer Natural, Shell, McDonalds, Costco, and many others. In addition, he has worked with USDA, The Noble Research Institute, and The Wallace Center. Dr. Williams pioneered many of the early regenerative grazing protocols and forage finishing techniques and now teaches those practices and principles to farmers globally. Major areas of research and business focus include soil health, cover crop/livestock integration, regenerative cropping systems, adaptive forage & grazing management, high attribute pasture-based meat production, and alternative marketing systems.