Speaker Profile
Speaker Company
Ball Publishing
Speaker Bio
Chris Beytes is editor-in-chief of GrowerTalks and Green Profit magazines and author of the widely read weekly e-newsletter Acres Online, which reaches nearly 30,000 horticulture industry members in more than 60 countries.
Chris is a graduate of the University of Florida with a degree in journalism and a minor in ornamental horticulture. A former Florida greenhouse owner (Indian River Ornamentals in Merritt Island) with his horticulturist wife, Laurie, Chris has been with Ball Publishing since 1993. In that position, he travels the U.S. and the world to stay current on the latest horticultural production, marketing and retailing technologies and trends. Highlights of his career (thus far) include interviewing King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, and emceeing (seven times) the International Grower of the Year awards in Germany.
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Date & Time
08/20/2025 1:00pm EDT