9:00am - 6:00pm

Registration

1:00 - 4:30pm

Workshops:

• Rising Energy Costs: Threat or Opportunity
• Value Chains

*Note: Each workshop is limited to 30 delegates on a first-come first-served basis

7:00pm

Opening Remarks:

• Alberta Minister of Agriculture ( invited)
• Bill MacFarquhar, CFBMC Chair

7:30 - 8:30pm

Opening Speaker:

• Don Jonovic, Family Business Management Services

8:30pm

Opening Reception:

• Announcement and Reception

7:00 - 8:30am

Breakfast and Registration

8:30 - 10:00am

Richard Worzel, Futurist
Inventing the Future of Farming

10:00 - 10:20am

Break

10:20 - 11:20am

Break-out Session:

"Scenario Planning"

11:20 - 11:50am

Presentation:

Best Managers’ Practices
Winners of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers Program

11:50am - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:15pm

Doug Jose, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska
Comprehensive Business Risk Management

2:15 - 2:30pm

Break

2:30 - 3:15pm

Ted Darling, Agricultural Risk Specialist,
Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
Tools for Business Risk Management

3:15 - 3:45pm

TBA: Farmer Speaker
Comprehensive Business Risk Management

3:45 - 4:45pm

Richard Cressman, Farm Family Consulting
Communication for Family Conference and Business

4:45 - 5:15pm

Wrap-up:

• Don Jonovic, Family Business Management Services

6:30pm

Banquet Dinner

7:00 - 8:30am

Breakfest

8:30 - 10:00am

Don Jonovic, Family Business Management Services
Surviving Family Farming Whitewater

10:00 - 10:20am

Break

10:20 - 11:30am

Darrell Toma, Toma and Bouma Management Consultants
Farm Business Structures

11:30am - 12:00pm

TBA: Farmer Speaker
Farm Business Structures

12:00 - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00 - 1:45pm

Breakout Session:

• Farm Business Structures/Family Communication

1:45 - 2:30 pm

Gary Pike, Pike Management Group
Farm Business Structures

2:30 - 3:15pm

Conference wrap-up

• Don Jonovic, Family Business Management Services
  Making Sure We Do It This Time

3:15pm

End of Conference