Thursday, February 26
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| 2:00-6:00
pm |
Conference Registration
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| 7:00 pm |
Welcome – Opening Remarks
Bill MacFarquhar
President
Canadian Farm Business Management Council
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| 7:30 pm |
Word from the Minister
|
| 8:00 pm |
Entrepreneurial Mindset for
Creating Opportunities in an Age of Uncertainty
Al Scholz, Consultant
A.N. Scholz and Associates Inc.
Head First Consulting: The Idea Bank
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| 9:00 pm |
Farm Credit Canada's Welcome
Reception
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Friday, February 27
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| 7:00 am |
Breakfast
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| 8:30 am |
Opening Remarks and Introduction
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| 9:00 am |
Farm Diversification
Dr. Ed Mahoney, Professor and Extension Specialist
Michigan State University College of agriculture
|
| 10:15 am |
Break
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| 10:45 am |
Bringing Forces Together - Food
Safety is not an Option
Bryan Walton, Vice-President, Western Office
Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors
|
| 11:30 am |
Best Managers' Practices
Presentation from the Winners of Canada’s
Outstanding Young Farmer Program.
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:15 pm |
Contract with Consumers
Deb Lethbridge, Public Relations Counsel
Ontario Federation of Agriculture
|
| 2:00 pm |
Pork and Public Opinion
Jim Vidoczy, Director, Consumer Marketing
Ontario Pork
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| 2:45 pm |
Break
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| 3:15 pm |
The Challenge of Abundance
Dr. Gord Surgeoner, President
Ontario Agri-Food Technologies
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| 6:00 pm |
Banquet
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Saturday, February 28
|
| 7:00 am |
Breakfast
|
| 8:30 am |
Introduction to the Day
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| 8:45 am |
Farm Income Rethinking
Dr. Richard A. Levins, Emeritus Professor
Department of Applied Economics, University
of Minnesota
|
| 9:45 am |
Break
|
| 10:00 am |
Workshop:
-Family Farm Diversification Through Agritourism
Jane Eckert, Agritourism Speaker & Direct
Farm Marketing Consultant
Eckert Agrimarketing
|
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch
|
| 1:30 pm |
Panel Discussion Session, moderated
by Farm Credit Canada
Agriculture in an Age of Uncertainty –
Strategies and Solutions
Panel: Richard A. Levins, Al Scholz and Ed
Mahoney
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| 2:45 pm |
Break
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| 3:15 pm |
Conference wrap-up session
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| 4:00 pm |
End of the Conference
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Funded in part by the
