64th Annual
CPM Short Course and MCPR Trade Show Ag: BIG DATA's New Frontier
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When Tuesday December 9 Thursday December 11, 2014
Where Minneapolis Convention Center
Join Us December 9th - 11th!
What A one of a kind educational and social gathering of the Minnesota and Upper Midwest crop input industry.
JUST ANNOUNCED..... New Program Presentation Tuesday afternoon - December 9th! See below for more details!
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Steve Peterson, Director Sourcing Sustainability, General Mills, Inc; MN Agri Growth Council Board Chairman, Field to Market Board member; Steve also owns and manages Peterson Farms, a grain and livestock operation in Paynesville, MN. Food Companies are sourcing their supply chains to achieve sustainable metrics. MCPR member customers are being evaluated on sustainable production with ever increasing frequency. Tuesday afternoon, learn from Steve Peterson, Director Sourcing Sustainability, General Mills, Inc. about their goal to sustainably source the raw materials used in their products, including 100 percent of their 10 priority ingredients by 2020. How can MCPR members insure their customers are positioned to respond to the metrics food companies are implementing? Learn from Steve Peterson about Field To Market®: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. Field To Market® is a diverse alliance working to create opportunities across the agricultural supply chain for continuous improvements in productivity, environmental quality, and human well-being. The group provides collaborative leadership that is engaged in industry-wide dialogue, grounded in science, and open to the full range of technology choices. Learn about calculating "Fieldprints" in which management information is entered into the tool, analyzed and transformed into a "Fieldprint", which graphically represents the farmer's unique operation. It helps farmers visualize and assess how efficiencies and environmental impacts fluctuate based on various management decisions. Farmers can also compare their performance against local, state and national averages developed using publically available data. Find out why most major agribusinesses and national and state producer associations are cooperating to insure that Field to Market is the Sustainable Ag measurement system adopted by the world.
Also on Tuesday: Agricultural UAVs- Remote Sensing, in Drones, Manned Aircraft and Satellites and Practical Applications Dr Kevin Price, a Ph.D with 33 years in the field of remote sensing and a pioneer of UAV use in agricultural academics will present on the various platforms, methods, and purposes of remote sensing data. Remote sensing platform evaluations will cover drones, manned aircraft, and satellites. Integration of "actionable remote sensing data" via variable rate technologies through existing farm management solutions will be shared. He will be providing an education on the secondary issues around big data within the activity of remote sensing including recommending data privacy policies the grower should consider, thoughts on how and why data can be used and shared by both the grower and third parties, practical applications of remote sensing and their ROI stories as well as how collected data can impact the farmer's bottom line through the growing season. Delivering on the Promise of Precision Ag - Back by popular demand, Dan Frieberg, CEO, Premier Crop Systems LLC, will drill down into the elements of successful, productive site specific agronomy. Drawing on his vast experience advising Minnesota and Upper Midwest agronomists on the strengths and weaknesses of their programs, Dan will lead a panel discussion of practitioners including Kevin Anderson of FarmRx talking about how they do their service and why, and Kevin Kruize, program lead with Central Valley Coop to describe their processes. If you are servicing or plan to service growers with behind-the-scenes data analysis and seek to enable agronomic advisors to 'think deeper' with growers by identifying and correcting yield limiting factors, you cannot miss this program. By providing detailed data, customers can make better decisions, easier. You will review methods of collecting the big data growers record every time they cross their field with a GPS device and put it together in a format that an advisor and grower can use to make better agronomy decisions and avoid the pitfalls of precision ag practices that do not deliver. Do you want to
give growers a window into their fields that lets them and their advisor see relationships between yield and every decision they face in the course of a crop year? Learn how precision ag applied complex computer programming and database management help in making difficult agronomic decisions. The panel discussion will enable you to interact with professionals with years of experience "in the field." Dan Frieberg, grew up on a farm in Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University with a BS degree in Farm Operations. His career includes wholesale fertilizer sales, retail management, serving as CEO of the Iowa Fertilizer and Chemical Association and later the Agribusiness Association of Iowa and business consulting. Since 1999, his firm, Premier Crop Systems has been a behind-the-scenes data analysis backbone that has enabled hundreds of agronomic advisors to 'think deeper' with thousands of their growers. Kevin Anderson is a GIS Data Management Specialist at FarmRx, L.L.C.. He has been Chief Manager of FarmRx which is a partnership between three farmer owned cooperatives in Minnesota including WFS, NuWay Coop, and UFC. Prior to this position he worked with SST Software and Blue Earth Agronomics / GeoFarm, Inc. Kevin has a B.S. in Geography from Mankato State University and has developed expertise in Precision Ag working at the field level with growers around Minnesota. Kevin Kruize is Precision Ag Manager for Central Valley Coop (CVC). Previously he served CVC for 9 years in agronomy sales. Kevin has a B.S Ag Education from the U of MN with an emphasis on training development.
Accomodations Hilton Minneapolis The Minneapolis Hilton offers a special event rate of $108/ night if you book before November 18th, 2014 or until the room block sells out - whichever comes first. You can make your Minneapolis Hilton reservation online here or by phone at (612) 376-1000 and request the MCPR special room rate by giving the code MNC.
Trade Show & Social Functions The trade show is open to all registered participants on: * December 9th, 3 PM - 6:30 PM. * December 10th, 9 AM - 5 PM. * December 11th, 9 AM - 11 AM. All breaks and lunch on Wednesday will be served on the floor of the trade show. The annual Ice Breaker reception will be held on December 9th, starting at 5:00 PM.
