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CONGRESS SCHEDULE

Sunday, July 19 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Congress Registration

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Picnic in the Park

Monday, July 20

7:00 a.m. Registration open

8:00 a.m. General Congress Convenes Opening Welcomes/Introductions by Fred Hepler, AFM, AAC, President, ISPFMRA

Thomas Jennings, Director of Agriculture, State of Illinois

Dr. Al Bowman, President, Illinois State University John Alliston, President, International Farm Management Association

8:30 a.m. “The World in Perspective” Keynote Overview of the Congress before us delivered by Dr. Robert Thompson, Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

9:05 a.m. “Toward World Food Security” Gregory Traxler, Senior Program Officer, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington

10:30 a.m. “The Need for and Acceptance of Bio-Technology in Feeding a Hungry World” Kevin Eblen, Vice President, Public Policy and Sustainable Yield Leader, Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri

11:10 a.m. “The Future Role of Farm Management in the United States” A panel discussion moderated by Jerry Warner, AFM, Farmers National Company, Omaha, Nebraska, President, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

Michael Kelly, Kelly Ranch, LLC, Sutherland, NE

Richard Edmunds, ARA, AAC Edmunds Enterprises Delavan, NY

George Baird IV, AFM Land Management Group

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Collierville, TN

James Rickert, AFM, ARA, Mary Rickert Western Agricultural Services Fall River Mills, CA

1:00 p.m. - 5 p.m. Posters on display

1:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Paper Presentations

Tuesday, July 21 Day Trips 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Registration Open

7:15 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Banquet and entertainment Wednesday, July 228:00 a.m. IFMA Membership Meeting

8:30 a.m. General Sessions “Development of Worldwide Wind Energy” Andrew Young, Chief Development Officer, Horizon Wind Energy, Chicago, Illinois

9:20 a.m. “A Look at Bio-Fuels Technology” Dennis Magyar, Industry Leader, North American Dupont Biofuels, Wilmington, Delaware

10:30 “Frontiers in Animal Health, Genetics and Food Safety” Dr. Ann Wilkinson, Associate Director of Global Alliances, Pfizer Animal Health Christchurch, New Zealand

11:20 a.m. “International Farm Management” A Panel Discussion moderated by Rob Napier, Napier Agrifutures, New South Wales, Australia David Hughes, Traulen Co., SA, Buenes Aires, Argentina

Linton Brimblecombe, Moira Farming, Queensland, Australia

Robert Covell, Agrico, LLC, Russia

1:00 p.m. - 5 p.m. Posters on display

1:40 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Paper Presentations


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Thursday, July 23 Day Trips

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Registration Open

7:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. International Banquet and entertainment

Friday, July 24

8:00 a.m. “The Future Role of BioFuels” A discussion moderated by Colleen Callahan, Colleen Callahan Communications, Kickapoo, Illinois

Tadeusz W. Patzek, Chairman, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Thomas Dorr, Former Under Secretary for Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Alexandria, Virginia

10:00 a.m. “Women in Farm Management” A panel discussion moderated by Ann Jarvis, an agricultural producer from Victoria, Australia

Christine Hamilton, Christiansen Land and Cattle, Ltd., Kimball, South Dakota

Christine Finnigan, producer from Palmerston North, Manawatu, New Zealand

11:30 a.m. “IFMA18 “-- New Zealand in 2011 Phil Everest, Everest Farm Consulting, Ltd, Ashburton, New Zealand

1 p.m. “New Frontiers that Change Everything” Closing Keynote by Dr. Lowell B. Catlett, Regent’s Professor at New Mexico State University, Dean and Chief Administrative Officer for the College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Las Cruces, New Mexico

3:00 p.m. Closures and Farewell Fred A. Hepler John Alliston

3:15 p.m. Adjournment


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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Fred Hepler, AFM, AACWexford FinancialPresident, Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers

Authentic agribusiness expertise is not found just within the walls of an office – it is developed over time from hands-on farm experience and an intuitive business sense. It is precisely this expertise that has allowed Fred Hepler, Senior Portfolio Analyst with Wexford Capital LP and President of Stampede Farms, a subsidiary company, to make sound business decisions that significantly impact the liveli-hood and prosperity of his company, individual farmers, their families and their operations. He has made agribusiness the focus of his career, beginning with his childhood on a grain and livestock farm in south-western Iowa.

Stampede Farms is a global production farming company which owns land throughout the United States. The mission of Stampede is to build the “Wal-Mart farming operation of the world.” Stampede Farms currently produces corn, soybeans, cotton, wheat, potatoes and grain sorghum. The primary focus of the company is to own “irrigated” farmland to offset risk of rainfall and utilize all the marketing tools avail-able in the industry to offset production risk.

Fred’s extensive education began at the College of Automation in Iowa, where he received his Associate of Science degree in Computer Programming/Training. Fred then attended Iowa State University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business. After establishing a budding career in agribusi-ness consulting, Fred returned to school to pursue his M.B.A. at Eastern Illinois University, graduating with honors.

Prior to joining Wexford, Fred spent 21 years as the Executive Vice President at Westchester Group, Inc., a national farmland investment, sales, management and consulting firm. He speaks nationally on current and future agriculture industry issues and teaches business management and marketing courses at Eastern Illinois University.

Thomas JenningsDirectorIllinois Department of Agriculture

Thomas Jennings was named Director of Agriculture in October 2008. He had previously served as Acting Director. Jennings began his career at the Department as a grain warehouse examiner in June 1978.

Jennings also has served as the Department’s chief of staff, manager of the divi-sion of agriculture industry regulation, and bureau chief of warehouses. He is a board member of the Illinois Propane Education and Research Council, a past member of the Illinois CPA Society and current chairman of the Fertilizer Research and Education Council.


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Al BowmanPresidentIllinois State University

Al Bowman became Illinois State University’s 17th president on March 1, 2004, after serving one year as interim president.

He received a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology from Augustana College and a master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Eastern Illinois University. He chose the University of Illinois at Champaign, Urbana, for his graduate work, completing a Ph. D. in speech and hearing science.

In the 2002-2003 academic year, Bowman was asked to serve as ISU’s interim provost. He served in that position from June of 2003 until he was named president in March 2004.

This is not President Bowman’s first presence regarding IFMA17 -- in the past he has shared the podium with Congress organizers and press conference highlighting the program that is beginning this morning.

Prof. John AllistonPresident, International Farm Management Association

Alliston is Dean of the School of Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, England. He is a Course Director for the Institute of Agricultural Management Leadership Course and for the John Edgar Trust Management De-velopment Scheme. He is a fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Management, of the Royal Agricultural Societies, and of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers.

He has travelled widely and is a Nuffield Jubilee Scholar and a New Zealand Waitangi Foundation Fellow.

A frequent attendee of IFMA Congresses, in August 2005 he was elected as President. In November 2005 he was presented with the AKC Farm Management Award for outstanding contribution to Farm Manage-ment at the UK National Farm Management Conference.

His research interests include global trade, maize production, beef, sheep and dairying.

Robert L. ThompsonGardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural PolicyUniversity of Illinois

Professor Bob Thompson holds the Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy at the University of Illinois, where he carries on an active program of class-room- and extension education in public policy. He serves on the USDA-USTR Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade and the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council.

From Mid-1998 until 2002 Thompson was a the World Bank where he served as its Director of Rural Development, with administrative responsibility for the Bank’s worldwide agriculture, forestry and rural development programs.


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Thompson has extensive international experience and has completed long-term assignments in Denmark, Laos and Brazil. He has lectured, consulted, or conducted research in more than 90 countries worldwide.

Greg TraxlerSenior Program OfficerBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington

Greg Traxler is Senior Program Officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. His program at the foundation supports improved agricultural policies in Africa, graduate training for policy analysis in Africa, and improving the impact of crop improvement research. Before joining the foundation in 2008, Traxler was Profes-sor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. His published research examines the process and impacts of agricultural research, the economics of intellectual property rights, the distribution of benefits from biotechnology innovations, and the coordination of public and private sector agricultural research.

Kevin EblenVice President, Public Policy and Sustainable Yield LeaderMonsanto, St. Louis, MO.

A National FFA President in 1986-87, Eblin is a 1990 graduate of Iowa State University. He worked for Monsanto briefly from 1990 to 1992, left the company, then returned in 1994 as a Business Team Leader in Denver. Since returning to Monsanto in 2001, he has spent two years overseeing Monsanto sales in Western Europe, been a Regional Sales Manager in Sacramento, California overseeing all of Monsanto’s interests in the Western United States, named a Strategy Group Vice President in 2005 where he and his team developed soybean sales strategies in both the Brazilian and Argentina markets in South America. After serving for a period of tmes as the President of Delta and Pine Land Business, a Monsanto company, he was named to his current position.

Michael J. KellyOwner-ManagerKelly Ranch, LLC

The Kelly ranch, located in the Western Nebraska Sandhills, is a family-owned business involving Mi-chael, his wife, Cynthia, and son Dan.

Production activities include an 800-head cow-calf herd which provides raised and also purchased calves for a stocker back-grounding and grazing enterprise, a contract stocker grazing program, an alfalfa hay and meadow grass hay enterprise, and 270 acres of irrigated corn grown under contract farming. The ranch has used retained ownership in feedyards when profitable opportunities are projected.

The ranch management information system includes managerial accounting using QuickBooks software, Cow-Calf, which is a cattle production software and an analysis system, and the extensive use of Excel to facilitate financial statement reporting analysis of different production and marketing alternatives.


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Dick EdmundsEdmunds EnterprisesDelavan, New York

Dick Edmunds is owner of Edmunds Enterprises located in Delavan, New York. Main work areas include specialized appraisal services and, income tax prepara-tion and consultation. Dick currently is the President-Elect of the American Soci-ety of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. He has been a member of ASFMRA since 1978 receiving the Accredited Rural Appraiser (ARA) designation in 1988 and the Accredited Agricultural Consultant (AAC) designation in 1994.

Jim Rickert, ARA, AFMMary RickertWestern Agricultural Services

S. James Rickert, ARA & AFM and his wife Mary, have been the co-own-ers of Western Agricultural Services since 1981. Their son James Rickert joined the family business in 2004. All members of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, they provide farm and ranch manage-ment services on over 50,000 acres in five counties in Northern California. The Rickerts also offer appraisal and real estate brokerage services as part of their business model.

They specialize in organic beef production by marketing a branded beef product and supply bovine raw materials for bio-medical device companies. The Rickerts raise approximately 20,000 tons of alfalfa, timo-thy and grass hay and produce specialty crops such as wild rice and peppermint. Many of the properties they manage provide recreational opportunities for hunting and fishing.

George E. Baird IV, AFM Co-Founder, PartnerBaird & Brunson Land Management Group, LLC

Baird has been an active member of ASFMRA since 1994 and has served on sev-eral state and national committees and was Arkansas Chapter President in 2000. He is currently serving as the District II Vice- President and also served last year as the Tennessee Chapter President.

He grew up on a cotton farm in Mississippi. He graduated with a Bachelor of Sci-ence Degree in Agriculture Economics from Mississippi State University in 1993. Baird is licensed in both Arkansas and Tennessee, where he manages numerous farms and represents buyers and sellers of farmland. He says his proudest accom-plishments was being selected as 2006 Farm Manager of the Year.


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Andrew YoungChief Development OfficerHorizon Wind Energy

As chief development officer, Andrew Young oversees all of Horizon Wind Energy’s project development efforts across North American. He most recently led Horizon’s New Initiatives efforts, expanding the company’s footprint in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

He first joined Horizon in 2001 and has been directly involved in the development and construction of more than 1,000 megawatts (MW) of operational wind power projects across the United States and Cana-da.

He launched his career as an engineer working in nuclear power, aerospace, automation, robotics and re-search and development. He holds an Honors Bachelor of Applied Science degree in mechanical engineer-ing from Canada’s University at Waterloo.

Dennis J. MagyarIndustry Manager North America, DuPont BiofuelsWilmington, Delaware

Based in Wilmington, Delaware, at DuPont headquarters, Dennis has held numerous sales management, new market development and business management roles in DuPont primarily in chemical based busi-nesses ranging from acrylics to polyester resins.

Since 2000, Dennis has been a part of DuPont’s Applied BioSciences business unit. DuPont Applied Bio-Sciences is bringing nature and science together to convert agricultural crops to high performance materi-als and fuels. The tools and disciplines of chemistry, materials science, and chemical engineering are all critical to making renewably sourced products.

Ann WilkinsonAssociate Director, Global AlliancesPfizer Animal Health

Ann is involved with the implementation of key partnerships in academia, research institutions, and gov-ernment to support Pfizer Animal Health’s key strategic initiatives.. Prior roles in her ten years with Pfizer have included Strategic Account Management, a role that focused attention on the large dairies across the US, and Veterinary Operations for the Dairy Group, to provide technical support and education.

Ann received her BVSc in 1987 from Massey University in New Zealand, and her MBA from Cornell University in 1997. In addition to being in private practice for seven years in New Zealand and one year in New York, Ann was an ambulatory clinician (dairy) at Cornell and completed the Michigan State Univer-sity three-year Dairy Health Management Certificate Program.


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Linton BrimblecombeMoiraQueensland, Australia

The property known as Moira has been in the Brimblecombe family since 1925. Growing mainly grain corn, lucerne and onion for the domestic market, in 1959 his father, Alan, saw the potential for irrigated cotton in Queensland and began growing cotton. By the 1970s Alan had brought his brothers-in-law into the opera-tion and they were producing 10 percent of the state’s cotton crop.

In 1989 Linton, and his brother-in-law Tim Pocock began taking over manage-ment of Moira. In 2004 the two realized their dream of operating individually and split the farm into two enterprises. Today, Linton and his wife, Melinda, are farming the business Moira Farming P/L. They have further expanded their enterprise to include a leased property growing lucerne, as well as developing a minimum till rotation for the beatroot including sor-ghum, wheat and mung beans.

He is a great believer in empowering the individual to achieve through responsibility as well as empower-ing communities to take their destiny into their own hands and improve their situation.

David C. HughesCEO, Traulen, Co., SABuenos Aires Argentina

David Hughes started as a farm manager on a 7,400-head cow-calf ranch in Cordoba, Argentina, after graduating from the Catholic University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He later served as CEO for Costa Salada, S.A., managing 10,000 hectares of farm land and 7,500 acres of ranchland, and for the past 15 year the president of a grain storage business since its beginning in 2002. During these years the business has weathered various Argentine financial crises, and has built equity through expanding land purchases and land rental for crops and cattle.

After the Dissolution of Costa Salada in an estate transfer settlement he formed Traulen Co., S.A., which manages and administers farms. ranches and agribusiness firms.

Robert CovellAgrico, LLCRussia

Robert Covell from Ludford in North East Lincolnshire, England is 47 and the only descendant from 3 farming brothers who were involved in poultry and arable farming in North and South Lincolnshire.

May 1983 his father died and Robert, age 20, took over the running of the busi-ness in partnership with his uncle. The business at this time was 300 acres of cere-als, 150 store cattle and 50,000 broiler breeders on contract to a major U.K. integrator.

The family decided to close the arable and beef business and concentrate on poultry and today the busi-ness has changed into a broiler operation on contract to Moy Park Poultry.


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In 1991 Robert set up a new dealership business importing and exporting farm machinery for the intensive livestock industry throughout the UK representing the Cumberland and AP brands of well known Assump-tion, Illinois-based GSI Group, which continues to this day under his control.

In 1998 he became managing director of the GSI Group Europe, one of the largest manufacturers in the world of pig, poultry and grain equipment responsible for all the groups’ activities in the EMEA region. As a result, obviously this is not his first time in Illinois

In 2004 he joined Martinico IBV a Dutch-registered, Russian agribusiness company as a consultant, and today is a member of the main board of the group with specific responsibility for strategy and new proj-ects.

The company today is split into 4 primary divisions: 1) Agricultural Production: a) 86,000ha-wheat, rape, maize, sunflowers, sugar beet, potatoes and onions b) Pigs-4000 sows, fattening, feed mill c) Irrigated vegetables: 1,000 ha- potatoes, onions and rotational crops.2) Grain Trading of 1.5m tonnes of exported grain annually3) Logistics 4) Trade (Property, small chain of supermarkets, Food trading).

The main direction of the group is in developing the most efficient fully integrated agriculture and food production company offering the best quality mainstream agricultural products, branded meat and veg-etables to both the Russian and international markets.

Thomas C. DorrPresidentThomas Dorr & AssociatesAlexandria, Virginia

The Honorable Thomas C. Door is the president of Thomas Dorr and Associates, a consulting firm focus-ing on public policy and economic opportunity in rural America.

Prior to establishing his company, he joined the United States Department of Agriculture in 2001. In 2002 he was appointed by President George W. Bush as Undersecretary for Rural Development. He served in this capacity until December 2008.

While at USDA, Mr. dorr transitioned an agency labeled as a “lender of last resort” into a venture capital financing tool for rural American by increasing its investment portfolio from nearly $47 billion in 2002 to over $103 billion in FY2008. His efforts transformed Rural Development into an agency focused on identifying rural opportunities.

Mr. Dorr served as chairman of the USDA Energy Council and co-Chair of the federal Biomass Research and Development Board. He leadership resulting in the development of the largest commercial financing effort for renewable energy in the history of the federal government.


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Tadeusz W. Patzek, Ph. D.Chairman Petroleum and GeoSystems EngineeringUniversity of Texas - Austin, Austin, Texas

Dr. Tad Patzek earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Silesian Techni-cal University, Poland in 1980. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. He holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 11.

Dr. Patzek’s research involves mathematical modeling of earth systems with em-phasis on multiphase fluid flow physics and rock mechanics. He is also working on smart, process-based control of very large waterfloods in unconventional, low-permeability formations, and on the mechanics of hydrate-bearing sediments. In a broader context, he works on the thermodynamics and ecology of human survival and energy supply schemes for humanity.

Christine Hamilton, MBAChristiansen Land and Cattle, Ltd.Kimball, SD

Christine Hamilton is the managing partner of Christiansen Land and Cattle, Ltd., a fourth-generation farming and ranching agri-business based in central South Dakota which includes more than 25,000 acres of owned and leased land. She is the owner of Dakota Packing, Inc., a wholesale meat distribution and cutting operation based in Las Vegas, which provides center-of-the-plate meats to upscale restaurants and casinos through Nevada and the Southwest.

Corresponding to her interest in the ag industry and entrepreneurship, Christine has had key positions in several start-up projects as an investor, board member, or member of the management team.

She received her bachelor’s in philosophy from Smith College and her MBA from the University of Ari-zona.

Christine M. FinniganPalmerston North, New Zealand

Christine and her partner, Hamish live in the North Island of New Zealand where she runs a 220-cow, seasonal pastured-based dairy farm business. She also has a one-third share in another dairy farm running 800 cows.

She studied agricultural and horticultural science and finance at Massey Universi-ty, and gained experience and equity through the ‘Sharemilking” system, farming in different regions of New Zealand. She says of herself that she has a ‘can do” and independent attitude.


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Dr. Lowell B. CatlettRegent’s ProfessorNew Mexico State University

Dr. Lowell B. Catlett is a Regent’s Professor at New Mexico State University and is Dean and Chief Administrative Officer for the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. He is an exciting futurist whose knowledge of technologies and their implications on the way we will live and work is addressed in his varied and upbeat presentations.

Dr. Catlett received his doctorate in Economics from Iowa State University, and has twice received the Don C. Roush Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In addition to his selection in 2002 as a member of the original class of six New Mexico State University Regents Professors, Dr. Catlett has received every teaching award the university offers, including the Wes-thafer Award for Teaching in 1990, NMSU’s top honor. Dr. Catlett is internationally known as an expert in commodities futures markets and is in demand as a speaker and consultant on predicting and planning for near-and long-term futures.

He is a consultant to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Interior, Defense and Labor. He has also been a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies.


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