J. Alan Weber is a founding partner of M4 Consulting and is a consultant with the Center for Regenerative Agriculture working with the team on the CRCL project. Alan is a nationally-known economist with extensive experience in the soybean industry, including cover crop analysis in row crop production. He also is a producer himself, farming almost 900 acres with his family in Central Missouri and using cover crops on many of those acres. Alan has an M.S. degree in Agriculture Economics from the University of Missouri.