AgCredit's Emerge Experience

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AgCredit’s Emerge Experience

March 7-8, 2025

Hilton Garden Inn
6165 Levis Commons Blvd, Perrysburg, OH 43551

This conference is designed to offer a networking experience to AgCredit members who are young, beginning and small farmers, as well as provide education opportunities. We have an exciting agenda planned with topics including social media marketing for your farm, grain marketing, agritourism, working with FSA and more! Whether you’re just starting out in farming, or have already emerged yourself into it, this conference is for you.

This conference is open to current AgCredit members who qualify as young, beginning or small farmers. There is no fee to attend and AgCredit will cover a one night hotel stay for attendees.

Agenda Overview

Friday, March 7

Time

Session

1:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Registration with hotel check in beginning at 4:00

2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

	Emerging Markets	Financial Fortitude
2:00 Session 1	Agritourism, Jason & Kayla Laubacher, Jason’s Pumpkin Patch	The 5 C’s of Credit, Josh McBride, AgCredit Input Costs, Barry Ward, OSU Extension
3:00 Session 2	Sustainability & The Consumer, Rebecca Dalton, Dalton Farms	Do More than a Tax Return, Bruce Clevenger & Clint Schroeder, OSU Extension
4:00 Session 3	Social Media & Product Development, Alexis Burnham, Burnham Orchards	Rules of the Road for Farm Trucking, Leah Curtis, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation

5:00 p.m.

Networking Reception

6:30 p.m.

Welcome and Dinner

7:30 p.m.

Keynote Speaker Jolene Brown, “Let Go of the Rope”

8:30 p.m.- 10 p.m.

Networking Reception

Saturday, March 8

Time	Session
7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.	Breakfast Buffet
7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.	Words of Wisdom with AgCredit Board Members Dusty Sonnenberg & Joel Albright
8:30 a.m.- 12:15 p.m.	4 Rounds of Breakout Sessions Breakout Session Speakers & Topics Neil Schuller, The Andersons, Grain & Economic Outlook  Garth Ruff, OSU Extension, Livestock Outlook  Kurt Leber, FSA, Opportunities for Beginning Farmers and more  Shultz Huber, Major Taxable Events  Luke Lichtensteiger, 10 Types of Farm Insurance Coverage  Peggy Hall, OSU, Legal Issues Every Farm Should Have on Their Radar  Sarah Noggle, OSU Extension, Managing Stress on the Farm  Eric Brown, Succession & Transition Planning  Jolene Brown, When Mind is Not Enough  Scott Shearer, OSU, The Future of Technology in Agriculture  Andy Drerup, John Deere, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond  Dale Arnold, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, Carbon Credits  Eric Romich, OSU, Harnessing Energy with a Focus on Profitability and Efficiency
12:20 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.	Live Evaluation Stations
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.	Keynote Speaker, Jolene Brown, “Harvest the Humor”
2:00 p.m.	Door prize drawing and closing remarks

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