Fireside Chat with American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall

Join American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall on the Cultivation Center Stage for a fireside chat hosted by content creator and mental health advocate, Tara Beaver Coronado. Together, they’ll explore the importance of reducing the stigma around mental health and the essential role authentic storytelling plays in the social media era. 

Speakers:

• Zippy Duvall, President, AFBF
• Tara Beaver Coronado, Owner, Beaver Vineyards

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Speaker Details

Zippy Duvall

Zippy Duvall leads the American Farm Bureau Federation, serving as president for nearly a decade. He is a third-generation farmer from Georgia. He and his son operate a beef cow herd, raise broiler chickens, and are continuing to restore the farmland that has been in the family for more than 90 years.

Through his leadership, Duvall helped to shape the 2018 farm bill and is working to ensure Congress passes a new, modernized farm bill that effectively supports farmers and ranchers. He has helped defeat misguided regulations, shepherd new trade agreements, and in 2024, stopped Wall Street regulations from hitting farms and played a key role in securing $30 billion in aid for farmers and ranchers hit hard by natural and economic disasters.

Duvall was honored by the National 4-H Council as a founding luminary, a group of influential 4-H alumni. Prior to being elected AFBF president, he was president of the Georgia Farm Bureau and served on the AFBF board of directors. In 1987, he also served on the AFBF board as Young Farmer Committee chair.

Duvall and his wife, Jennifer, were married in December 2021. Both lost their first spouses to illnesses but found new joy in each other, along with their six children and nine grandchildren.

Tara Beaver-Coronado

Tara grew up on a farm in Northern California where her family grew corn and alfalfa, and also ran a land-leveling business. In 2015 she moved back to help manage her family's farm. While working alongside her dad, she also started to search for her place in the world of agriculture. She found herself drawn to viticulture, and after a few years of learning as much as she could about growing wine grapes, she planted a 50-acre vineyard in 2018. Friends and family wanted to be able to follow along with her farming journey, so her social media channels were born. Since 2018 she has shared the good, bad, and ugly of agriculture across multiple social media channels.