2026

Austin Gellings is the Senior Director of Agricultural Services for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).

Austin is a Wisconsin native that grew up on his family farm where he still helps raise hay and livestock today. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens point with a major in marketing. He then attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he received an MBA.

In his roll with AEM Austin serves the Secretariat for the Ag Industry Electronics Foundation and as the liaison for AEM’s ag technology, dairy, water management, specialty crops, and sprayer equipment groups. He also works with agricultural members to help address and solve various industry issues.

Dusty grew up on a horse farm in south-central Manitoba.

After realizing early on that horses weren’t his calling, he went on to study agronomy at the University of Manitoba before beginning his career in independent agronomy and later transitioning into crop protection sales.

With more than 13 years of experience in the agriculture industry, he brings a strong background in agronomy, sales, and grower support to his role at ADAMA.

Dusty and his wife live in Brandon and enjoy escaping the prairie winters to travel and scuba dive.

Rachel Evans is a dynamic agronomist with 10+ years of experience providing agronomy training, research coordination and project leadership.

Rachel’s love for the outdoors led her to pursue a B.Sc. Agroecology (2011), and later a Master of Plant Science (2015) from the University of Manitoba, where she explored the use of fall rye cover crops for weed management in Manitoba’s pulse production systems.

Since 2018, Rachel has been working as Technical Sales Manager at FMC Canada, covering Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan. She brings her strong academic background in the areas of plant and soil science to provide science-based solutions and guide best practices for FMC farm customers.

Prior to joining FMC, Rachel worked with the Flax Council of Canada, as Extension Agronomist, and Native Plant Solutions (Ducks Unlimited Canada), as project coordinator, experiences that laid her foundation in working with diverse stakeholders from across the Ag sector. Rachel is passionate about supporting the next generation of agronomists, twice serving as mentor in the Agriculture Mentorship Program for Women in Agricultural Studies at University of Manitoba Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences.

She is a Certified Crop Advisor (2017) and a member of the Professional Agrologists Institute of Manitoba (2016), now serving as an elected Provincial Councilor.