Events and Activities : Tri-State Ag Lending Seminar to be held

The 24th Annual Tri-State Ag Lender’s Seminar will be held on Wednesday, November 9th at the Midway Best Western Hotel in Dubuque, Iowa (3100 Dodge Street) between Kmart and Cedar Cross Road.

This seminar is sponsored by the Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin Extension Offices and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville School of Agriculture.

The agenda this year again focuses on most of the top choices based on last year’s comments. They include the marketing outlooks of dairy, livestock and grains along with the issues of feed costs and land values and rents. The seminar should once again provide fruitful discussion to issues of concern to agricultural lenders.

Schedule is as follows:

9:30 am Registration and Refreshments

10:00 am Recent Trends in Land Values and Rents with Bruce Jones, Farm Management Specialist, UW-Extension, UW-Madison

10:50 am Grain/Livestock Marketing and Risk Management, wit h Jim Jensen, Farm Management Agent, NE/SE Iowa

11:45 pm Lunch

12:45 pm 4-State Feed Cost Evaluator with Victor Cabrera, Dairy Management Specialist, UW-Extension, UW-Madison

1:15 pm Dairy Marketing and Risk Management Update with Robert Cropp, Dairy Marketing Specialist, UW Professor Emeritus

2:00 pm Break

2:15 pm Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy with Brian Gould UW-Extension, UW-Madison

The program will adjourn approximately 3:00 pm. The Tri-State Ag Lender’s Seminar is sponsored by: University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Iowa State University Extension; University of Illinois Extension; and the University of Wisconsin-Extension.

The cost of the program is $60, which includes handouts, refreshments and lunch.

To register, please mail the registration slip with payment by October 22nd to: Dubuque County Extension. Send it to Larry Tranel, ISU Extension Dairy Specialist, Dubuque County Extension, 14858 West Ridge Lane, Suite 2, Dubuque, IA 52003

Or e-mail tranel@iastate.edu for registration information.

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