Breakthrough to Excellence

Save the date for next year, July 30 – August 1, 2025 at Lake Lawn Resort in Delavan, Wisconsin! Plan now for you and your family to join Meristem and get all the tools to fight back and build your farm business!

Breakthrough to Excellence

Join us at Breakthrough to Excellence!

Videos

Learn

We will fill your toolbox with insights from speakers, plots and hands-on demonstrations to help you and your family chart a successful path for your next year of business.

Connect

Network with hundreds of Meristem business leaders like you from across the United States, and hear from industry and agronomy experts, as well as university PhDs!

Recharge

Bring your family and recharge together. What you and your family do for Meristem is critically important, and we cannot wait to see you in 2025!

Mitch Snyder

McKillip Seeds Inc.

“The Meristem summer meeting far exceeded my expectations. Meristem assembled a very knowledgeable group of speakers that absolutely delivered an exciting message of yield boosting strategies and showed off several of these tactics in the on-site plots.”

Caleb Oxendale

Oxendale Ag

“The trip to Lake Delavan was a great experience because it gave me the opportunity to meet with other dealers and see what is working for them and also get to see the products first-hand in a trial setting.”

Mitchell Geswein

Mitchell Geswein Farms

“Nice location, great networking, and huge business building opportunities.”

Breakthrough to Excellence 2023

BTE 2023 | Welcome and Company Update

Meristem’s 2023 Breakthrough to Excellence Dealer Partner Exchange is kicked off by event emcee David Parker before Founder and CEO, Mitch Eviston, shares important company updates and unveils the CY 2024 new REVLINE® HOPPER THROTTLE™ pail and BIO-CAPSULE™ TECHNOLOGY.

BTE 2023 | Critical Insights: Farm Policy and Economics Panel

This panel of world-class leaders, including Sara Wyant (Editor/Publisher at AgriPulse), Dan Basse (Founder/Economist at AgResource Company), Don Preusser (President at Vane.Ag), and Jeff Sommers (General Manager of Wysocki Farms) shares industry insights at Meristem’s BTE 2023. Hear panelists discuss critical changes in the upcoming Farm Bill, important economic trends for farmers to make money and get more bushels for less, and more!

BTE 2023 | Maximizing the Efficiency of the Fertility Investment

Hear from Meristem’s Melanie Burk, joined by Ed Corrigan (Senior Agronomist at BRANDT) and Jeff Sommers (General Manager of Wysocki Farms), in the plots at BTE 2023 on how farmers can maximize the efficiency of their fertility investment.

BTE 2023 | Mixing it Up – Making Adjuvants and Starter Fertilizer Locally

Meristem’s Joe Gednalske, Izaak Rathke and Mike McNinch share more about the benefits of making adjuvants and starter fertilizers locally through Meristem’s Advanced Concentrates System, including a live mixing demonstration in the plots at BTE 2023.

BTE 2023 | Meristem High-Yield Corn Plot

See Meristem’s High-Yield Corn Plot at BTE 2023 and hear more about the High-Yield Corn Program from Meristem’s Shane Brockhoff, Dr. Brewer Blessitt (Owner of Blythe Bayou Research and Consulting), and Alex Cochran (Chief Technology Officer at DPH Biologicals).

BTE 2023 | Meristem High-Yield Soybean Plot

Learn about Meristem’s High-Yield Soybean Program directly from the BTE 2023 High-Yield Soybean Plot and hear from Meristem’s David Sass, as well as Lewis Stearns (Lead Agronomist at Progress Crop Solutions) and John Torrance (Owner of Torrance Farms and 2022 Illinois Soybean Yield Champion).

BTE 2023 | Building Your Meristem Business

Meristem’s President & Chief Marketing Officer, Rob McClelland, and event emcee David Parker, lead a panel discussion sharing the tools Meristem provides to its dealer partners to help them chart a successful path for their business. Panelists include Steve Freeman (Sales Rep for Tidewater Seed), Cameron Edwards (Meristem), Nathan Louiso (Owner of Axis Ohio), and Chad Gripp (Founder & CEO of Gripp Custom Farming/Gripp Farms).

BTE 2023 | Biology is Fertility™ Session

Meristem’s Peter Rousonelos, joined by Brian Haschemeyer (VP of BRANDT Discovery & Innovation at BRANDT), share Meristem’s Biology is Fertility™ message, including the value of EXCAVATOR®, nitrogen management, REVLINE® HOPPER THROTTLE™, and UPSHIFT® C powered by ETHER™, and how each works together in a system to help farmers get more bushels for less.

BTE 2023 | Breaking High-Yield Barriers With Biologicals – Experts Panel

Nationally-recognized agronomy leaders, Dr. Fred Below (University of Illinois), David Hula (World Record Corn Grower), and Dr. Connor Sible (University of Illinois) engage in a fast-paced, hard-hitting dialogue at Meristem’s BTE 2023 on practical applications of biologicals and other tools that drive yields to the next level.