Beginning Farmers Conference 2008 -- Agenda

3^rd Annual Beginning Farmers Conference
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, Ames

Agenda

8:30 - 9:30	Registration - Gallery Lobby
9:30 - 9:40	Welcome and Introduction ISU Beginning Farmers Network
9:40 - 10:45	Keynote Speaker: Mr. Bill Northey Iowa Secretary of Agriculture
10:45 - 11:00	Networking Opportunity
11:00 - 12:00	Breakout session 1 Machinery Sharing, Dr. Roger Ginder, Iowa State University Matching Young and Retiring Farmers, Dave Baker, Beginning Farmers Center Business Structures, Dr. Roger McEowen, Center for Agriculture Law and Taxation
12:00	Lunch provided by Golden Harvest Panel Discussion - Returning to the Farm Retiring farmer, TBA ISU Graduate farming for a few years with family, Scott Cramer ISU Graduate going home to farm with family, Troy Meyer
1:30	Breakout session 2 Intergenerational Farming, John Baker, Beginning Farmers Center Nitrogen Management, TBA Farm Management for Beginning Farmers, Dr. James Kliebenstein, ISU
2:30	Networking Opportunity
2:45	Breakout session 3 The Dating Game - Acquiring Land to Rent, Kelvin Leibold, Iowa State University Extension The Livestock Industry - Where it's going, Dr. John Lawrence, Iowa Beef Center Value Added Agriculture, Dr. Margaret Smith, Value Added Agriculture Extension
3:45	Keynote Speaker: Traci Bruckner Assistant Director, Rural Policy Program Beginning Farmers and the Farm Bill
4:30	Closing Comments