Top Farmer Conference 2024
Take part in one of the most successful and longest-running management programs geared specifically for farmers — the Purdue Top Farmer Conference, featuring faculty and staff experts from Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture. Surrounded by farm management, farm policy, agricultural finance and marketing experts, and a group of your peers, the conference will stimulate your thinking about agriculture’s future and how you can position your farm to be successful in the years ahead.
This year’s conference featured sessions focused on the future of biofuels and soybeans; the status of the new farm bill’s development and the outlook on farm policy and crop insurance decisions in 2024; insight into Federal Reserve policy and the key factors influencing the U.S. economy; what’s in store for corn and soybean prices. The conference concluded with a Q&A panel discussion. Conference video recordings and slide deck presentations are only available to those that registered. All conference registrants received a copy of Scott Irwin’s new book, Back To The Futures, a memoir of growing up on a family farm in Iowa and market primer on commodity futures markets.
Registration for next year’s conference which will be held at Purdue’s Beck Agricultural Center in West Lafayette on Friday, January 10, 2025, will open in late 2024. If you can’t attend in-person, you can still join us remotely for one of the best conferences of the winter meeting season. Subscribe to the Center’s newsletter to stay up to date on future programs.
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Speakers
Brad Lubben
Extension Associate Professor & Policy Specialist, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jim Bullard
Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business; Distinguished Professor of Service; Special Advisor to the President, Purdue University
Scott Irwin
Professor, Laurence J. Norton Chair of Agricultural Marketing, Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
PROGRAM DATE:
January 5, 2024
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST
REGISTRATION FEE:
$150
LOCATION:
Hybrid Delivery
In-Person at the Beck Agricultural Center
4550 US-52, West Lafayette, IN
or Virtually
Registered participants will receive a link to join
Is this program for you?
For questions about registration and more information about the Conference, contact us at comagctr@purdue.edu or (765) 494-7004.