Farmers and growers will have the opportunity to talk business, politics and more at the first-annual DTN/Progressive Farmer Ag Summit. Mark your calendars for early December.
DTN and The Progressive Farmer magazine announced today that it will host its first agriculture summit on December 5-7 at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago.
The 2007 DTN/Progressive Farmer Ag Summit, “Grow and Prosper: Producer Strategies for High-Risk, High-Reward Agriculture,” will help growers identify grain industry trends for 2008 and refine their marketing and business strategies to deal with them.
“Today’s producers are faced with more market swings, technological advancements and agricultural policy changes than ever before,” said Robert Gordon, chief executive officer, DTN. “The 2007 DTN/Progressive Farmer Ag Summit offers agriculture professionals valuable information to help address these and other industry challenges. The summit further demonstrates DTN’s commitment to providing agriculture professionals with the most advanced, real-time information and services that can help them farm smarter.”
Summit events include farmer panels and informative break-out sessions. Farmer panels will focus on integrating new management models and technology into farm expansion, advances in precision guidance system technology and new strategies for merchandising and marketing grain.
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The show put on for us here at the John Deere product introduction took over an hour so I’ve edited a video clip of it down to 10 minutes to fit on YouTube for you. It’ll give you a flavor of the show, including the music. 
The John Deere product launch is a real show that includes a full band. These guys started out on drop down mini round stages before stepping out onto the floor.
To give you some perspective on how many new products are being brought to the marketplace by John Deere I thought a list would help. It’s a big one like they’ve been saying and farmers will be seeing most of them on display at shows coming up like next week’s Farm Progress Show.
Here at the John Deere product launch the media and securities analysts are in a classroom session to hear from company representatives on new product topics like tractors, combines, cotton handling and precision gear.
At the conclusion of the stage show tonight we heard from John Deere Senior Vice President, Agricultural Marketing – North America, Australia & Asia, Doug DeVries. Doug came out to thank the dealers who work directly with the customers.
Wow did we see a show tonight here at the John Deere product launch. When you hear the engines roaring and then they come out of the dark and the smoke it really generates some excitement.
One of the new products on display is the John Deere 70 Series Combines like this largest version, the 9870 sporting a new 600 series Cornhead. I’ve got lots of new pictures in the photo album so be sure to check it out.
One of the first things my group got to do when we arrived at the John Deere product launch field site was drive a new 7330 premium cab tractor.
Here’s a preview of what we’re going to see and drive today at the John Deere product launch.