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Women in Ag seminar March 23

Early registration deadline is March 1
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Women who are involved in agriculture will find a wide range of topics at the Women in Agriculture Seminar March 23 at the iWireless Center, Moline. The early registration deadline is March 1.

Registration will start at 8 a.m., followed by a 9 a.m. keynote address by Michele Payn Knoper of  www.CauseMatters.com. She will discuss leadership given the significant changes facing agriculture.

Speakers will include: Adam Nielsen, Illinois Farm Bureau national legislative director, and Lori Laughlin, IFB director of issue management. Topics will range from financial planning to managing farm finances to communicating with consumers.

The early registration fee is $50, which includes breakfast and lunch. Registrations received after March 1 will cost $60. The walk-in registration fee will be $75.

To register, contact the Rock Island County Farm Bureau office at 309-736-7432 or go online to www.extension.iastate.edu/scott/news/womeninagriculture.

Seminar sponsors include the Farm Bureaus in Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Henry, Knox, Lee, Mercer, McDonough, Rock Island, Stark, Warren-Henderson, and Whiteside counties and Iowa’s Scott County Farm Bureau.

Other sponsors are River Valley Cooperative, John Deere, 1st Farm Credit Services, FS/GROWMARK, Country Financial, First Midwest Bank. University of Illinois and Iowa State Extension are conference partners.


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