Join us for our Ag Risk Management Symposium, a practical, farmer-focused meeting designed to help you build a strong risk management plan for the 2026 crop year.
📅 Date: February 3rd, 2026
🕙 Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00/12:30PM MST
🥪 Lunch: Provided afterwards
📝 RSVP by: January 26 to either our Chappell, Sidney, or Sterling locations:
Chappell: 308-874-2708
Sidney: 308-254-4252
Sterling: 970-522-7886
This symposium will cover the best strategies to manage risk in the year ahead, as well as how to position your operation for success going into 2026. Topics will include:
•Market outlook and price risk
•Weather and yield risk
•Policy changes and program updates
•How to align your marketing plan and crop insurance decisions to improve profitability
•Practical approaches to selling grain in today’s environment and using available tools to support stronger returns
•How longer-term weather trends play into marketing and risk-management decisions
Featured speakers include:
•Travis Kester, VP of Grain, Frenchman Valley Coop
•Ben Scholl, President, Lewis B. Osterbur & Associates
•Brian Bledsoe, Special Guest Meteorologist focused on High Plains agriculture and host of the Desert Farmer Podcast
•James Schroeder, Principal and Founder of Quartzite Risk Management LLC
•Additional special guest speaker
You’ll hear how grain marketing, risk protection tools, and weather expectations all connect, and how using them together can help support better decision-making for your operation.
✅ Please RSVP by January 26 to reserve your spot (and lunch!).
We look forward to seeing you there!
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