BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20220726T164500Z DTEND:20220726T180000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:2022 State of Agriculture Panel DESCRIPTION:State of the Agriculture Panel\n\nJoin us for the 2022 State of Ag Panel on July 26th from 11:45-1pm\n\n\n \n\nMeet your Panelists!\n\nSenator Gary Dahms - Former Redwood County Commissioner and State Senator for District 16. He is Chairman of the Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Rural Development Finance and Policy Committee.\n\n\n\nBrian Knochenmus - Brian is the president and CEO of Ralco Nutrition\, a 3rd generation family-owned business that focuses on providing solutions for efficient nutrient conversion in both animals and plants. Brian also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for The tr Shrimp Companies. Brian has a passion for innovation and a heart for agriculture\, desiring to create awareness and alignment between food producers and consumers.\n\n\n\nMike Boerboom - Mike is the CEO of Boerboom Ag Resources\, a family farming operation that produces about 400\,000 market pigs annually. Mike also serves on the board of Wholestone Foods\, a farmer owned pork packing plant in Fremont\, NE\, the Minnesota Pork Board and is the President of Marshall Amateur Hockey Association. \n\n\n\nCarolyn Olson - Carolyn grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis and joined her husband on the farm in 1988. Once there\, she quickly learned the ropes\; preferring spring and fall tillage as well as running the combine. \n\nAs an organic crop farmer from southwestern Minnesota\, Carolyn has served in many policy development and leadership roles both on a local\, state\, and national level. Carolyn has a passion for bringing together all types of farmers to secure a better future for all of agriculture. Carolyn also makes a delicious cinnamon roll. Ask her for her recipe.\n\n\n\nMeet your Facilitator\n\nKen Fransky- Agronomy Services Manager at Centrol. 27 years in the Agriculture industry including the last 6 at Centrol. His prior experience includes agronomic sales\, support\, and training in ag retailer and the seed industry. \n \n\n\n\nThank you to Bremer Bank & Titan Machinery for their continued support as AgBusiness Series Sponsors. \n\n\nThank you to the 2022 Event Sponsors! First Independent Bank\, Northwestern Farm Management Company\, Ralco/Knochenmus Enterprises\, Lyon County\, AURI\, Lyon County Environmental\, Legal Estate Planning Solutions\, PLLC\, AgCountry Farm Credit Services\, AgPlus\, Hennen Seeds\, Panka Insurance Agency\, Lockwood Motors\, Lanners Brothers Construction\, New York Life\, MVTV Wireless\, Animal Health Center\, Olson Organics\, Ace Home and Hardware\, North Star Mutual Insurance Company & Archer Daniels Midland Company X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
State of the Agriculture Panel
\nJoin us for the 2022 State of Ag Panel on July 26th from 11:45-1pm
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Meet your Panelists!
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Senator Gary Dahms - \;Former Redwood County Commissioner and State Senator for District 16. He is Chairman of the Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Senate Agriculture and Rural Development Finance and Policy Committee.
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\nBrian Knochenmus - \;Brian is the president and CEO of Ralco Nutrition\, a 3rd generation family-owned business that focuses on providing solutions for efficient nutrient conversion in both animals and plants. \; Brian also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for The trū\; Shrimp Companies. \; Brian has a passion for innovation and a heart for agriculture\, desiring to create awareness and alignment between food producers and consumers.
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\nMike Boerboom - \;Mike is the CEO of Boerboom Ag Resources\, a family farming operation that produces about 400\,000 market pigs annually. Mike also serves on the board of Wholestone Foods\, a farmer owned pork packing plant in Fremont\, NE\, the Minnesota Pork Board and is the President of Marshall Amateur Hockey Association.
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\nCarolyn Olson - \;Carolyn grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis and joined her husband on the farm in 1988.  \;Once there\, she quickly learned the ropes\; preferring spring and fall tillage as well as running the combine. \;  \;
\nAs an organic crop farmer from southwestern Minnesota\, Carolyn has served in many policy development and leadership roles both on a local\, state\, and national level. Carolyn has a passion for bringing together all types of farmers to secure a better future for all of agriculture. Carolyn also makes a delicious cinnamon roll. Ask her for her recipe.
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\nMeet your Facilitator
\nKen Fransky- \; \;Agronomy Services Manager at Centrol. \; 27 years in the Agriculture industry including the last 6 at Centrol. \; \;His prior experience includes agronomic sales\, support\, and training in ag retailer and the seed industry. \;
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\nThank you to Bremer Bank &\; Titan Machinery for their continued support as AgBusiness Series Sponsors. \;
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\nThank you to the 2022 Event Sponsors! \; \;First Independent Bank\, Northwestern Farm Management Company\, Ralco/Knochenmus Enterprises\, Lyon County\, AURI\, Lyon County Environmental\, Legal Estate Planning Solutions\, PLLC\, AgCountry Farm Credit Services\, AgPlus\, Hennen Seeds\, Panka Insurance Agency\, Lockwood Motors\, Lanners Brothers Construction\, New York Life\, MVTV Wireless\, Animal Health Center\, \; \;Olson Organics\, \;Ace Home and Hardware\, North Star Mutual Insurance Company &\; \;Archer Daniels Midland Company
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\n \; LOCATION:Lyon County Fairgrounds Hoop Barn 504 Fairgrounds Road Marshall\, MN UID:e.499.18061 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260425T144335Z URL:https://business.marshallmn.org/events/details/2022-state-of-agriculture-panel-18061 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR