Iowa State University Extension and Outreach of Boone and Greene Counties and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation are teaming up to offer a local “Winning the Game” workshop to help farmers work though their 2018 pre-harvest marketing plan.
The workshop will be held Monday, March 5, from 9 am to noon at the Leonard Good Community Center in Ogden. A light breakfast will be served at 8:30 am.
The workshop will be led by Steve Johnson, Extension farm management specialist and Ed Kordick, commodity services manager for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. During this half-day session, farmers will examine the key elements of a solid marketing plan and learn how crop insurance, target prices and decision dates can work together to help secure a good average price for their crop. In this workshop, participants will write their own marketing plan, and then implement it in a realistic market-simulation game to see how they react to real-life market fluctuations.
There is no registration fee for this workshop, but pre-registration is requested by visiting http://tinyurl.com/wtg1718. Local sponsors for the program are Landus Cooperative, Vision Bank, and United Bank of Iowa.
Persons who want more information can contact Alex Merk, Boone County Extension and Outreach program coordinator, at 515-432-3882 or alexmerk@iastate.edu.
