Here’s our program for the annual Farmland Values Conference on March 23.
Agenda
7:00 a.m. Registration open
8:00 a.m. Greetings, Opening comments
8:10 a.m. Kevin Van Trump — Founder of Farm Direction and publisher of the weekly Van Trump Report Agriculture Risk in a world that feels Upside Down
9:10 a.m. David Oppedahl — Publisher of AgLetter, the quarterly newsletter from the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago
Projections of Federal Monetary Policy
10:10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Dr. Bruce Sherrick, Director of TIAA-CREF Center for Farmland Research at the University of
Illinois
Factors Affecting Farmland Markets
11:15 a.m. David Klein, Vice President and Agricultural Asset Manager, Soy Capital Ag Services
Dr. Gary Schnitkey, Farm Management Specialist, Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Economics, University of Illinois
2017 Land Values and Lease Trends Report
Noon Adjournment