2025 Annual Conference Materials

Sessions in English

Session Presenter(s)
Growing Broccolini Ana Timmer
When’s the Best Time to Castrate Bee Lutz
Let the Dough Rise Ben Penner
Funding Farm Growth Through Grants – Choose Iowa Beth Romer
Funding Farm Growth Through Grants – ISU Extension Christa Hartsook
First-Time Grant Writing for Beginning Farmers Carly Zierke
Owning & Operating a Cover Crop Seed Business Dean Sponheim
Using Agroforestry to Meet Farming Goals Elana Gingerich
Farmers of Forty Centuries Eric Lee-Mader
Building Strong Foundations: A Guide for Agricultural Entrepreneurs Grant Brooke
(Trying) Till It’s Right: Exploring Conservation Tillage Methods Following a Cover Crop Jacob Bolson
 Cover Cropping on Vegetable Farms Jennie Erwin
Diversifying Income Through Value-Added Grain Infrastructure John and Halee Wepking
The Ins and Outs of Pasture Farrowing John Gilbert
Organic Pest Management for Row Crops Kathleen Delate
Year-round Grazing in the Midwest: Building a Forage Chain Kevin Fulton
What to Know Before You Hire Your First Employee Kristy and Bob Walker
Green Acres Milling Landon Plagge
Cropping Cloth Leslie Schroeder
Lightning Talk: Specialty Crops and Climate Change in the Midwest Laurie Nowatzke
Lightning Talk: Vegetable Packshed Design Carly McAndrews
Lightning Talk: Permaculture & Indigenous Practices in Urban Context Sandro Lopes
Lightning Talk: Supporting Urban Farmers with Pollinators and Beneficial Insects Sarah Nizzi
Lightning Talk: Using Steam Sterilization in the Soil Tony Vannice
Lightning Talk: Keeping a Family Milk Cow Tyler Strub
Marketing & Pricing Meat for Direct-to Consumer Sales Matt LeRoux
Grazing Cover Crops Ross Kurash
Reduced Nitrogen Trial Ross McCaw
Travels with Ruth in Search of Conservation Ideas Ruth McCabe
 Can We Reduce N Rates to Corn and Improve ROI? Sean Dengler
Swapping Marginal Acres for Coveys Stephanie Nelson
 Climate Crops T.D. Holub
Scaling a Direct-to-Consumer Operation as First-Generation Farmers Tessa Parks
 PFI Cover Crop Termination Trial Tracy Skaar
 Starting a Meat Bird Operation and Being Compliant Trent Butler
Making Pasture Pencil Out Zach Knutson

Sesiones en Español

Sesiones
Principios de Contabilidad Francisco Díaz Escoto y Danny Carper-Jacobo
Viva los Sueños de Pastoreo Rotacional con Chivos Vivos Jenny Horner
Establecimiento de objetivos holísticos Lucia Schulz
Apicultura Exploratoria Randall Paul Cass
Conozca a su enemigo Sam Oschwald Tilton
Somos Tierra: La jornada de Un Agricultor Latino en Nebraska Sandro Lopes