South Dakota Corn Growers hold profitability conferences
Source: BrownfieldNetwork.com, by Peter Shinn
November 27, 2007
The South Dakota Corn Growers Association (SDCGA) this week is putting on the first round of its annual Growing Forward conferences. Teddi Mueller is SDCGA's Legislative and Industry Affairs Director. She told Brownfield the conferences are designed to have a positive bottom line impact for producers.
"We're going to be talking about grain marketing, government farm programs, crop insurance, risk management strategies," Mueller said. "All different kind of aspects that they need to take a detailed look at to see how all that stuff is going to elevate their farm."
Gary Duffy farms with his family in south central South Dakota. He told Brownfield he makes a point of going to the Growing Forward conferences every year, precisely because he finds them so helpful.
"I think they're fantastic," Duffy enthused. "They are packed with information and producers can take quite a bit of that back and use it in their own operation."
Steven Johnson, farm and ag business management field specialist for Iowa State University, is the featured presenter at this week's Growing Forward conferences, which are a free service of SDCGA. The first of five scheduled events took place in Sioux Falls and Watertown on Monday in Aberdeen on Tuesday. The conferences continue Wednesday in Huron and Thursday in Yankton.
The Growing Forward conferences return for a second round during the week of February 18th in the same locations as those taking place this week. Joining Johnson at the February conferences will be ISU climatologist Elwynn Taylor.
