Farm Director KC Sheperd caught up with Brent Ladd, OSU Assistant Extension Specialist for Agricultural Economics to talk about the 2024 Rural Economic Outlook Conference, slated for Wednesday, October 16, 2024, and held on the Oklahoma State University Campus in the Conoco Phillips Alumni Center.
Each year the event includes a great lineup of speakers including keynote speakers from outside of the OSU campus and also some speakers from within the faculty body.
“This year the two keynote speakers are Randy Daniels, Chief Risk Officer at Triangle Insurance, and Kenny Burdine, Extension Professor of Livestock Economics at the University of Kentucky.”
Daniels will discuss the impact of the agricultural insurance market on the ag industry. Burdine will talk about livestock risk protection insurance for feeder cattle.
A much-anticipated event at the Conference is the rapid-fire panel. “This year Dr. Rodney Jones will do the ag finance update, and Dr. John Michael Riley will provide the grain markets update in place of Dr. Kim Anderson, since he recently retired,” Ladd noted.
Everyone is invited to attend the Rural Economics Conference, but it will be especially geared toward producers, extension personnel, agricultural lenders, and policy makers.
“We’ll often have a few people from the state department of banking and agriculture,” Ladd said. “We’ll have a number of ag lenders from across the state, and then of course, we do market it toward producers as well, so we’ll have some of those show up every year.”
Lunch will be served during the conference, so there is a need for pre-registration. The cost is $50 until October 9, when the fee increases to $75. To see the Lineup and get registered, click here:
