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ADDITIONAL SEMINARS

Seminars can be prearranged to cover a variety of risk management, market education and market information topics. For more information, contact your county Farm Bureau, or contact Ed Kordick, Director of Market Education and Information at (515) 225-5433 or by email at ekordick@ifbf.org
 
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Launch and Land Your Post-Harvest Marketing Plan: Winning the Game
How would you go about writing a post-harvest marketing plan? In this program we examine six marketing plans, each represented by the distinct personality of celebrity marketers like Barney Binless, Peter Paperfarmer, Hank Holder and others. Learning about their marketing styles allows us to explore seasonal price patterns, carrying charges, and the risk of holding unpriced grain in storage. But writing a plan is just half the battle. Do we have the exit strategy needed to complete our plan? Join us as we challenge to write your marketing plan and execute it in a realistic simulation game.

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Day Date Time Town Location
Monday11/26/076:00 p.m.HumestonCommunity Center
Tuesday11/27/076:30 p.m.DonnellsonLee County FB
Wednesday11/28/079:00 a.m.Iowa CityJohnson County Farm Bureau
Wednesday11/28/072:00 p.m.WashingtonWashington County Farm Bureau
Thursday12/06/078:30 a.m.Fort DodgeIowa Central Community College
Wednesday12/12/0710:00 a.m.GreenfieldAdair County Extension Office
Tuesday12/18/076:00 p.m.OskaloosaMahaska County Extension
Wednesday12/19/079:00 p.m.KnoxvilleMarion County FB
Wednesday12/19/076:00 p.m.SigourneyKeokuk County FB
Wednesday12/19/071:00 p.m.CalmarDairy Center Room 115
Wednesday12/19/077:00 p.m.CrescoNICC, Room 102


Launch your Pre-Harvest Marketing Plan: Winning the Game
An educational program for farmers designed to teach new crop marketing plans with a market simulation to practice the plan with real prices ! Updated market histories! Workshops will be scheduled for: January – March. Program highlights: Learn how target dates and target prices secure a good average price. Pre-harvest marketing pays and crop insurance lets you do it with confidence. Market simulation game shows how a marketing plan works with real markets. Interactive learning atmosphere is a new and exciting experience!

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Day Date Time Town Location
Wednesday1/16/0810:00 a.m.GreenfieldAdair County Extension Office
Wednesday 1/23/08 9:00 a.m. Minden Minden Legion Hall
Wednesday 1/23/08 2:00 p.m. Dunlap St. Patricks Parish Center
Wednesday 1/23/08 6:00 p.m.WilliamsburgIowa County FB
Wednesday1/30/0810:00 a.m.ClarindaIce House Restaurant
Thursday 2/7/08 10:00 a.m. Knoxville Marion County Farm Bureau
Monday 2/11/08 9:00 a.m. Wyoming Memorial Hall
Wednesday2/13/081:00 p.m.Iowa FallsHardin County Extension Office
Monday 2/18/08 6:00 p.m. Oskaloosa Mahaska County Extension Office
Wednesday 2/20/08 6:00 p.m. Sigourney Keokuk County Farm Bureau
Thursday 2/21/08 9:00 a.m. Vinton U.S. Bank
Tuesday 03/04/08 1:30 p.m. Guthrie Center Guthrie County Extension Office
Friday 3/07/08 noon DeWitt 4-H Hall, Clinton County Fairgrounds
Monday 3/10/08 1:00 p.m.Iowa CityJohnson Co. FB
Monday 3/10/08 6:30 p.m.WapelloLouisa Co. FB
Tuesday 3/11/08 9:00 a.m.DonnellsonCommunity Center
Tuesday 3/11/08 5:00 p.m.EldridgeScott Co. FB
Wednesday 3/12/08 10:00 a.m. WashingtonWashington Co. FB




Winning the Game: The Dairy Edition
Tired of riding the milk price roller coaster? A sound marketing plan does not try to out-guess the market. A sound plan gets a good average price while managing price variability. Size up milk pricing opportunities with greater confidence by learning to evaluate the milk marketing landscape in a new workshop just for dairy producers. Topics include: Pricing tools, Seasonality of milk prices, Assessing the milk marketing landscape, Determining price targets, and test your marketing skills with a fast-paced game using actual market prices.

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Marketing education information
Farm Bureau and ISU Extension cooperate in supporting marketing education. Find information here designed to support local discussion and to help farmers learn about markets/topics.

  • Professional Education for Farmers (PEF)
    Farm Bureau provides educational opportunities for farmers through the organization's Professional Education for Farmers seminars. Seminar topics include, marketing principles and philosophy, objective based marketing, marketing mechanics, economics of ag issues, risk management and more. Contact your county Farm Bureau office to request a seminar for your local area.

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      MARKET ADVANTAGE

    Market Advantage 2007
    Come and hear what the experts have to say on issues and factors that affect your business and daily lives. You are invited to attend and hear an outstanding set of speakers that have earned the respect of farmers, lenders, and agribusinessmen here in the US and around the world. Click here for more information.

     

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       FARM BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SEMINARS

    Full-day seminars that will help participants use their own farm records to manage their business, understand financial reports and performance analysis, asset management, these are real "hands-on" sessions. Find out more …

       LIVESTOCK REVENUE INSURANCE

    Livestock Revenue Insurance programs are available to producers of hogs and cattle to help with price risk. These are good risk management tools worth consideration.

    Resources

  • LGM information:(including premium & gross margin estimates)

    LGM & LRP information from USDA Risk Management Agency
  • LGM and LRP coverage values, etc.
  • ISU Publication on Livestock Revenue Insurance
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