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Featured Panel: Water & Resilience at RMC 2026

Water resource management and long-term resilience in food production will be a key focus on Wednesday, June 24 during the featured keynote panel, “Water and Resilience: What the Panhandle Teaches Us All,” at the AMSA 79th Reciprocal Meat Conference in Amarillo, Texas. Funded by the Beef Checkoff, this timely discussion brings together leading voices from across the beef supply chain to address one of agriculture’s most pressing challenges.

Featured speakers include Scott Pohlman, Director of Beef Supply Chain Sustainability at Cargill; Ben Weinheimer, President and CEO of Texas Cattle Feeders Association; John Van de Pol, CEO and Owner of Red Rock Dairy; and Molly McAdams, Executive Vice President of Texas Beef Council. Together, they represent diverse perspectives across the protein value chain and will share practical insights, challenges, and solutions.

AMSA 2026 RMC Speakers

David Harper, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of the Fraser Valley

Dr. David G. Harper is a health educator and cancer researcher whose work over the past two decades has focused on the role of diet, metabolism, and nutrient-dense foods in human health and chronic. His research and teaching explore how dietary composition—particularly fat and protein intake and metabolic state—can influence clinical outcomes, in chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and cancer.

Dr. Harper is the author of BioDiet, a well-formulated ketogenic dietary framework emphasizing metabolic health, high fat, adequate protein, and whole-food nutrition. He has applied this approach in both research and clinical contexts, counseling hundreds of individuals and contributing to clinical trials examining therapeutic nutrition strategies.

He is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of the Fraser Valley and previously served as a Visiting Scientist at the BC Cancer Research Centre, Terry Fox Laboratory. Dr. Harper holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in comparative physiology at the University of Cambridge. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition and is a member of the Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition.

His research investigates the therapeutic potential of ketogenic diets in women with metastatic breast cancer, in collaboration with researchers at the BC Cancer Research Centre and The Ohio State University.

79th RMC Invitation from West Texas A&M University

Upcoming RMC Dates and Locations

· June 21-24, 2026 | Amarillo/Canyon, TX

· June 13-16, 2027 | Madison, WI