Producer Advisory Panel
The purpose of Noble’s Producer Advisory Panel is to provide feedback on the future direction of research, producer education initiatives and Noble ranches management. Their real-world insights support product development that improves soil health in grazing animal production, resulting in lasting producer profitability.
Panel members are chosen from across the United States and represent a wide range of enterprises and geographies. Panel members provide a view we might not have considered and ensure we provide exceptional value for regenerative ranching operations and land owners.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton is a rancher and entrepreneur in northeastern Texas. He runs a direct-market cow-calf enterprise and a stocker cattle operation. His retail market and restaurant, Local Yocal, connects customers with regenerative cattle production.
His mission is to produce cleaner meats with less chemical inputs. Hamilton’s multi-faceted retail business started in 2010 and has grown considerably. He’s proud to serve his neighbors cuts of beef he feels are healthier alternatives to grocery-store brands. When he isn’t on the ranch or behind the meat counter, Hamilton is an experienced public speaker who enjoys sharing what he’s learned with producers and industry leaders. He’s also active in his local Main Street Association and the Economic Development Corporation.
Brittany Hemme
Brittany Hemme, alongside her husband and his family, owns and operates a family dairy and on-farm creamery in central Missouri, near the I-70 corridor. The family farm added its cheese creamery as her husband and his brothers returned to the business.
Hemme grew up on a cattle ranch in North Dakota and works both on the farm and off as an advisor for a nonprofit that leads educational events for local farmers and ranchers. Small changes to management – like planting cover crops, then grazing them – proved to Hemme and her husband’s family that regenerative management could be their solution to rising costs and low soil fertility. In addition to her career and work on the farm, Hemme volunteers at the Santa Fe AgriLeaders and local farmers markets where the family’s creamery products are sold.
Kyle Marshall
Kyle Marshall is a rancher and regenerative land steward in the eastern Nebraska Sandhills. Since beginning his ranching career in 2002 on his wife’s family ranch, Kyle has transitioned the operation into a highly efficient, low-overhead custom grazing enterprise focused on ecological health and business profitability.
Kyle is a two-time graduate of the Ranching for Profit (RFP) School (2006, 2010/11) and served as an RFP Executive Link member, then Executive Link facilitator, helping other producers apply economic models and peer-advisory principles to their own operations. In 2020, he founded KM Fencing, a custom fencing company that supports regional producers in implementing better grazing infrastructure.
Kyle is deeply rooted in his community, having served on the GLW Extension Board and in various leadership capacities at Burwell Baptist Church. Kyle and his wife, Kristin, have three children and recently welcomed their first grandchild.
Vance Mitchell
Vance Mitchell operates a generational family ranch and land company on the central Gulf Coast of Texas. Mitchell and his brother manage a cow-calf herd and hold over calves as stockers and develop heifers when forage allows and markets dictate.
Mitchell and his family converted their land from dryland row crops to gazing land in the 1980s and early 90s thanks to USDA financial support programs. Mitchell’s parents attended a Ranching for Profit course and encouraged their sons to do the same. The family never looked back and has proudly grazed cattle ever since.
Over time, Mitchell has increased his ranch’s stocking rate and feels he’s improved the resilience of his grass to better withstand droughts. In addition to the ranch, Mitchell is actively involved in several organizations, including the Grazing Lands Coalition of Coastal Prairie of Texas and Jackson County Soil and Water Conservation District.
Eric Perner
Eric Perner is a second-generation rancher in northeastern Oklahoma. Perner sells his beef directly to customers through his company, REP Provisions. He also manages hogs, goats and a pecan orchard.
Perner is passionate about growing food and biodiversity at the same time. Since adopting regenerative practices on his ranch, he’s seen the return of many native grasses and forbs and spotted Bobwhite quail on the ranch.
In addition to serving on Noble’s Producer Advisory Panel, Perner is involved with the Audubon Society, Savory Institute and the US Dept of Agriculture.
Nancy Roberts
Nancy Roberts manages Arrowpoint Cattle Company in the southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Roberts and her sister manage their second-generation operation as a cow-calf enterprise for their retail beef business that supplies families and restaurants with grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pork.
Roberts raises highland cattle, which was already an unconventional choice that she says made trying regenerative practices on the ranch “right up their alley.” As a child, her father managed the ranch conventionally, but Roberts and her sister have transitioned management over the years to focus more on soil health and plant diversity.
Off the ranch, Roberts is the current President of the Upper Arkansas Conversation District Board and volunteers for Guidestone’s AgriSummit as well as a local chapter of 4-H club.
Chuck Trowbridge
Chuck Trowbridge is a first-generation regenerative rancher in the Texoma region of northeastern Texas. Trowbridge operates a direct-to-consumer brand, Prairie Farmstead, which sells beef, pork, chicken and goat meat as well as eggs.
Trowbridge grew up on a conventional dairy farm in western New York. As a kid, his parents transitioned the farm to beef cattle and hay production. As an adult, Trowbridge discovered that regenerative management philosophies aligned with the goals he had to start his own farm in Texas. Operating a small, family farm means all hands on-deck most days. But when Trowbridge can, he makes time to volunteer at his church and with his children’s school PTA. He is also an active member of the American Pasture Poultry Producers Association and the Farm & Ranch Freedom Alliance.
Colleen Withers
Colleen Withers is a rancher and natural-resource professional based in Paisley, Oregon. She and her husband, Matt, represent the seventh generation on Withers Ranch, which spans approximately 110,000 acres of arid, high-desert rangeland, including about 100,000 acres leased from the U.S. Forest Service and the State of Oregon.
Born and raised in south-central Oregon, Colleen served her community as a schoolteacher before transitioning to the ranch full time. Her primary focus is strengthening the ranch’s financial recordkeeping and decision-making, with a focus on measurable improvements to profitability.
In addition to her ranching responsibilities, Colleen works part-time with the Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council and serves as a Peer Leader for Country Natural Beef to assist their producers. She and Matt are also raising two daughters.