2024 Farm Assets Conference

This year's Farm Assets Conference is scheduled for Friday, December 13 at the i-Hotel & Illinois Conference Center on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. The doors open at 7:30 a.m. central. 

Extension and farmdoc programming are designed as cost-recovery events. Registration for 2024 is $80 per person through noon December 8 and $100 thereafter. Media and Extension personnel may register for free. 

The Farm Assets Conference is a day long event in Champaign which includes all the presentations from the following week's IFES meetings across the state (Mt. Vernon, Peoria, DeKalb) and information from the University of Illinois crop scientists. See the agenda below for full details.

PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS - there is a space to register prospective UofI ag college students for free. We are planning an event post meeting for them to visit campus. 

Contact Todd Gleason at tgleason@illinois.edu or (217) 333-9697 if you have questions. 

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2024 Farm Assets Conference  
Friday, December 13, 2024
i-Hotel, Champaign, Illinois

7:30 Registration

7:55 Introduction and Overview
Todd Gleason, University of Illinois Extension WILL Radio

8:00 – Practical Advice for Conservation Management
- Emily Heaton, University of Illinois
- Giovani Preza Fontes, University of Illinois
- Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois

8:40 Commercial Lenders and Agriculture
- Gerald Mashange, University of Illinois

9:10 Mental Health and the Farm
- Josie Rudolphi, University of Illinois

9:30 Alternative Federal Crop Insuarnce Products
- Brittney Goodrich, University of Illinois

10:00 BREAK

10:20 Growing Regions Weather
- Eric Snodgrass, Conduit.Ag

11:00 FBFM Farm Financials 
- Brad Zwilling, Illinois FBFM

11:30 Strategies to Manage Farm Input Costs
- Nick Paulson, University of Illinois

12:00 LUNCH

1:00 Farm Policy Update
- Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinios

1:30 South American Crop Prospects
- Joana Colussi, University of Illinois

2:00 Crop Sciences Production Panel Discussion
- Boris Camiletti, Extension Plant Pathologist - Univesity of Illinois
- Aaron Hager, Extension Weed Scientist - University of Illinois
- John Jones, Extension Soil Scientist - University of Illinois
- Nick Seiter, Extension Field Crops Entomologist - Univesity of Illinois

3:00 ACE Grain Market Outlook Panel
- Joe Janzen, University of Illinois
- Matt Bennett, AgMarket.net
- Brian Stark, The Andersons
- Collin Watters, Illinois Corn Growers Association