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91st Annual Soil Management and Land Valuation Conference
Wednesday, May 16, 2018, Scheman Building, Ames, Iowa
8:00 a.m. |
Registration |
8:30 a.m. |
Land Values: Your Estimates
Wendong Zhang, Chair, Conference Planning Committee |
8:45 a.m. |
Ag Trade and the Implications for the U.S. Farm Sector
David Oppedahl, Senior Business Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
9:45 a.m. |
Break |
10:00 a.m. |
Panel Discussion on the Growing Hog Industry in Iowa
Moderator: Dermot Hayes, Professor of Economics and Finance, ISU
Panelist: Jen Sorenson, Communications Director, Iowa Select Farms
Panelist: Jason Demaray, Retail Commercial Credit, FCS America
Panelist: Ryan Cox, CBI Bank & Trust, Muscatine, Iowa
Panelist: Ben Isaacson, Agri-Management Services
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11:30 a.m. |
Lunch |
12:30 p.m. |
Weather Outlook for 2018 Crop Year
Dennis Todey, Executive Director, Midwest Climate Hub |
1:00 p.m. |
What Does Higher Interest Rates Mean for Land Value and Farm Income
Michael Langemeier, Professor, Ag Economics, Purdue University |
1:45 p.m. |
Break |
2:00 p.m. |
2017 Iowa Farmland Ownership, Tenure and Transition Trends
Wendong Zhang, Assistant Professor, Economics, ISU |
2:45 p.m. |
In-Depth Legal Update: Iowa’s New Partition Law, Clean Water Act Developments, & Dicamba
Kristine Tidgren, Director, Center for Ag Law and Taxation, ISU |
4:00 p.m. |
Adjourn
(Next Year’s SMLV Conference: Wednesday, May 15, 2019) |
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