The Purdue University Top Farmer Conference will be held online from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. EST Jan. 7. The Top Farmer Conference features faculty and staff experts from the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture who will discuss agriculture’s future and how you can position your farm to be successful in the years ahead.
The 2022 Top Farmer Conference will be held virtually again this year due to the ongoing pandemic. Registration is $50 and includes access to the live conference, video recordings and presentation slide decks. Registered participants will receive an email with a link to join the conference live prior to the start of the conference. Conference video recordings and slide deck presentations will only be available to registered participants.
Purdue ag economists Nathanael Thompson and Carson Reeling will join Purdue agronomist Shalamar Armstrong to discuss emerging opportunities for farmers to receive payments for storing carbon on their farms. The session will explore underlying motivations for these markets, what opportunities markets are currently offering farmers, and what soil science tells us about the viability of soil carbon markets.
Farmland values
Purdue ag economist Todd Kuethe and farm real estate experts RD Schrader and Howard Halderman will discuss the new record high farmland prices across the Midwest. The discussion will cover the drivers behind the recent sharp increase in farmland values, the implications for farm finance and cash rents, and the how long the boom is expected to last.
Dr. Mitloehner is a sustainability expert who has spent nearly two decades studying the relationship between the livestock industry and air quality. His research sheds new light on the impact of livestock emissions on climate and reveals, once livestock emissions and mitigation process are better understood, how the world can move closer to turning what can be viewed as a liability into an asset.
Mitloehner is the director of the University of California’s CLEAR Center which is dedicated to bringing clarity to the intersection of animal agriculture and the environment. In 2013 Mitloehner served as chairman of a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) partnership project to benchmark the environmental footprint of livestock production. An engaging speaker, Professor Mitloehner joined the University of California-Davis faculty after earning his M.S. at the University of Leipzig and Ph.D. at Texas Tech University.
