Food & Farming Conference has ended

Create Your Own Event

Food & Farming Conference

Schedule will be continuously updated: please check back for more workshops!

9:00am CST

Registration Opens

10:00am CST

Cultivating Your Legally Resilient Farm Prairie RoomRachel Armstrong • Farm Commons

11:00am CST

A Healthy Soil Sponge: Essential for All Life on Land Frontier RoomDidi Pershouse

12:00pm CST

Lunch for Pre-Conference Attendees Embassy A Exhibitor Check-in Opens

5:00pm CST

Pool Party Holiday Inn Fargo Taste of Ag- Cocktails and Appetizers Great Hall

7:00am CST

Breakfast, Registration Opens Royale Room

8:00am CST

Welcome and Awards Ceremony Great Hall

8:30am CST

Keynote: Hold Hope Close, But Know it is Not a Strategy Great HallGary Matteson

10:00am CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

10:30am CST

Kid's Program: 4H Corn Babies and Cookie Soil Cups Mezzanine 1 Dicamba Conversation: Exploring What's Needed to Support Organic Farmers Frontier RoomWilla Childress • John Fagan • Ryan Schmid Farming Practices to Support Pollinators and Beneficial Insects Royale RoomKarin Jokela Oats Variety Trial and Stress Management Embassy AMelanie Caffe-Treml • Meg Moynihan Regional Climate Considerations for Seed Production Embassy BKoby Hagen Stress: How to Know If It Is Affecting Me and Easy Techniques to Deal With It Prairie RoomMaggie Peterson

11:30am CST

Lunch Buffet Great Hall

1:30pm CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

2:00pm CST

Kid's Program: River Keepers Crime Lab Mezzanine 2 Cover Crops in Established Vegetables and Across the Northern Plains Embassy ADana Jokela • Abbey Wick Dig into Data: Who Is on Your Side of the Desk Royale RoomCheryl Landsem Growing Food & Environmental Health: Current Projects at Blue Dasher Farm Prairie RoomRyan Schmid Organic Agriculture Research at NDSU Frontier RoomJesse Puka-Beals • Greta Gramig Should Farmers be Paid as Contractors for Regrowing Healthy Topsoil? Embassy BDidi Pershouse

3:00pm CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

4:00pm CST

Glyphosate Update: Science, Legal Developments and Market Impacts Royale RoomJohn Fagan Growing Cash Flow Frontier RoomGary Matteson Livestock as a Soil Health Partner Embassy AErin & Drew Gaugler • Douglas Landblom • Mike Ostlie Solar Energy on the Farm Embassy BCharlie Ricketts Weed Control in Organic Systems Prairie RoomCharlie Johnson • Mark Askegaard

5:30pm CST

Cash Bar Great Hall

6:00pm CST

Banquet Dinner Great Hall

7:30pm CST

Play: Map of My Kingdom Royale RoomMary Swander

7:00am CST

Breakfast, Registration Opens Royale Room

8:30am CST

Keynote: Developing High-Efficiency and Regenerative Agricultural and Food Systems: A Forever Green Agriculture Initiative Great HallDon Wyse

9:30am CST

Kid's Program: Boys and Girls Club, Big Blue Blocks Mezzanine 1

10:00am CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

10:30am CST

Farmland Transition Workshop Embassy BMary Swander Healing Generation RX: Supporting Our Young People Without Psychiatric Drugs Frontier RoomDidi Pershouse Marketing Grassfed Meat Prairie RoomCindy Tolle SARE Grantwriting: What You Need to Know Embassy ANCR- SARE Seed Sovereignty: Who Owns the Seeds of the World, Bio-Piracy, Genetic Engineering and Indigenous Peoples Royale RoomWinona LaDuke

11:30am CST

Lunch Buffet Great Hall

12:30pm CST

NPSAS Annual Meeting Royale Room

1:30pm CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

2:00pm CST

Kid's Program: SD Soil Health Coalition Mezzanine 2 Creative Ways to Improve Local Food Access in Rural Areas Embassy AJacquelyn N. Zita • Ren Olive Faith, Farms and Climate: Finding the Values in Farmer-Led Climate Action Frontier RoomMatt Russell Improved Agroecology Using Perennial Grains Prairie RoomBrian Smart Panel: New Models to Support Beginning Farmers Embassy BRon McFall What's Trending with Deep Winter Greenhouses? Royale RoomCarol Ford

3:00pm CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

4:00pm CST

Creating Trusted “Communities of Practice”: Ongoing Learning Groups that Support Innovation in Farming and Ranching Embassy BDidi Pershouse Hemp Panel: A Growing Industry Royale RoomWinona LaDuke • Mike Ostlie • 1881 Extractions • Legacy Hemp Regenerative Ag: Meeting Challenges Prairie RoomDon Wyse • Fred Kirschenmann • Ryan Schmid Unusual Crops: Kernza and Quinoa Embassy ANCR- SARE

5:30pm CST

Cash Bar Great Hall

6:00pm CST

Dinner, Childrens Music & Entertainment Great Hall

9:00am CST

Discussion/Action Planning: Role of Faith Communities in Climate Change Royale RoomMatt Russell