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Registration for the Chicago Farmers Farmland Forum is now OPEN! The Forum will take place at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences on Saturday, February 10, 2018. Please join us for a day of speaker sessions and networking with exhibitors and attendees.

Speaker Sessions

Please note that open enrollment for all speaker sessions will take place the morning of the Forum.

2018 Illinois Farmland Values and Lease Trends
Mike Morris, Compeer Financial

Beekeeping & Native Pollinators: Managing Hive, Bee Health & Honey Production
Jana Kinsman, Bike a Bee

Building a Regional Food System - Grain
Karen Lehman, Fresh Taste

Grain Market Outlook & Asset Management
Todd Gleason, University of Illinois Extension

Improving Soil Health with Cover Crops
Dan Towery, Ag Crop Consultant

Insurance and Risk Management Considerations
Scot Gudenrath, Country Financial 

NASS 101
Brad Summa, USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service

North America Bee Health System
Eric Ifft, Bayer

Solar/Wind Power Panel
Steve Sims, Enterprise Law Group, LLP & Dan Stokes, Attorney at Law

Trends in the Ag Economy and Your Farm
David Oppedahl, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Urban Agriculture, Small Farms, Local Foods & Master Urban Farmer Training
Zachary Grant, University of Illinois Extension

What's New in Digital Ag and How It Can Help Your Farm
Jeremy W. Wilson, Crop IMS LLC

For full speaker information, click here!

Exhibitors

1. American Farmland Trust
2. Busey Ag Services
3. The Chicago Farmers
4. Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences
5. Clark Farm Drainage, Inc.
6. Compeer Financial
7. First Midwest Bank
8. Foods Resource Bank
9. Goodwin & Associates Real Estate LLC
10. Granular
11. Hertz Farm Management, Inc.
12. IL Ag Leadership Foundation
13. Joliet Junior College
14. Land Pro LLC
15. McColly Rosenboom
16. Murray Wise Associates
17. MyAgData
18. Reeves Farm Partnership
19. Springfield Plastics
20. University of Illinois College of ACES
21. Wallace Land & Auction
22. Will-South Cook SWCD

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