Subject: Top Producer Seminar Tops 1,000
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:51:18 +0000 (GMT)

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Top Producer Seminar Tops 1=000

(Jan. 31, 2013) — Farm Journal = Media’s Top Producer events attracted 864 of the nation’s = largest producers, representing more than 4.5 million acres. =otal attendance for this year’s Top Producer Semina= reached 1,084 when including speakers, representatives f=om the 23 event sponsors and Farm Journal Media staff.
“There is no other event in agriculture that attracts such = a concentration of the nation’s top farmers,” s=id Steve Custer, Executive VP/COO of Farm Journal Media. =ldquo;Top Producer Seminar attendees not only hear from t=e industry’s best experts but have the opportunity =o network with like-minded producers, as well as sponsors=”

This year’s sem=nar theme, “Think Outside the Farm,” attracte= producers from 29 states and featured more than 40 different = educational sessions for producers to attend to hone their money, = marketing and management skills and deal with today’s vo=atile farm economy.

= “Coming off a terrible drought year, producers need to be = thinking outside their normal mentality to manage risk and im=rove their operations,” notes Top Producer Editor J=anne Bernick. “With the cream of the crop in agricu=ture attending our event, we worked hard to provide high-=evel information and take-home value.”
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The Top Producer Seminar also features the=annual Top Producer of the Year award. Finalists for the =ward, presented by Challenger and co-sponsored by Asgrow =nd DEKALB, Bayer CropScience and SFP, are Luke Brubaker o= Brubaker Farms, Mount Joy, Pa.; John Carroll of Carroll =razil Farms; and Dave Nelson of Nelson Family Farms, Fort=Dodge, Iowa.

In addition to T=p Producer Seminar, the fifth annual Tomorrow’s Top=Producer program was held Tuesday, Jan. 29, and hosted 138 = of the nation’s brightest young producers. The program is = designed to introduce young and beginning farmers under the age = of 35 to the business of farming. This year, Tomorrow’s=Top Producer hosted a tour for 30 young farmers to the Ch=cago Board of Trade. The tour was sponsored by SFP. A rec=ption on Tuesday evening allowed young producers to netwo=k with top producers from across the country.
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Premier Sponsors of the 2013 Top Producer=Seminar include: AgriGold; Agrium Advanced Technologies b=and ESN; Apache Sprayers; Asgrow and DEKALB; BASF; Bayer =ropScience; Cargill; Challenger; Dow AgroSciences brands =nlist, Instinct, Mycogen and SureStart; DuPont Pioneer; F=restone; Koch Agronomic Services, LLC brand Agrotain; RCI=; SFP; Syngenta; and Top Third Ag Marketing. Co-sponsors are: = Advance Trading; Integris; Kennedy and Coe; Michelin; Novozymes; = Soybean Premiums.org; and Water Street Solutions.
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For more information on the Top Producer Se=inar or Tomorrow’s Top Producer events, visit www.TopProducerSeminar.com.

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