Chad Ellis is the Chief Executive Officer for Texas Agricultural Land Trust (TALT).  Mr. Ellis has over 25 years of experience working directly with producers and land mangers implementing stewardship focused management.  Ellis not only promotes and advocates land stewardship principles, he also implements it within his own family opperation in Lohn, Texas.  Mr. Ellis is passionate about helping empower the producer to be better tomorrow than they are today.  Ellis brings deep connections and experiences as past-chair to U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB), past-chairman for Ecosystem Service Market Consortium (ESMC) and the founding chair of Trust in Food's Trust in Beef program.