Tomorrow’s Top Producer
I am in Chicago this week attending both the Top Producer conference and yesterday I attended the Tomorrow’s Top Producer and also gave a brief talk on income tax changes for 2011. There appears to be about 100 of tomorrow’s best farmers attending the conference and at lunch time, my wife and I were talking with 4 college senior man from Northwest Missouri University who all live in Southwestern Iowa and will be going back to the family farm soon.
As my wife said, what outstanding young men and I think that American farmers will be well represented by these young men (plus they also laughed at my jokes).
There were several good presentations on what it takes to be an efficient manager of a farm operation both as a young producer and laying the groundwork for when they are no longer young. If you are a young farmer, I would highly recommend attending this conference next year.
I will try to provide a daily update of the conference over the next few days.
Paul Neiffer is a certified public accountant and business advisor specializing in income taxation, accounting services, and succession planning for farmers and agribusiness processors. Paul is a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen in Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor at agweb.com. Raised on a farm in central Washington, he has been immersed in the ag industry his entire life, including the last 30 years professionally. Paul and his wife purchase an 180 acre ranch in 2016 and enjoy keeping it full of animals.
It sounds like these guys might make a good addition to the farmer roundtable group we’re working on starting up here in Southwest Iowa when they get back to the farm.