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Purdue's Jim Mintert to Keynote Rural Economic Outlook Conference at OSU October 12th
The OSU Agricultural Economics Department is hosting the Rural Economic Outlook Conference at the ConocoPhillips Alumni Center located on the OSU campus, Wednesday, October 12, 2022. KC Sheperd, Farm Director, visited with Brent Ladd, Assistant Extension Specialist at Oklahoma State University, talking about the Rural Economic Outlook Conference and what to expect.

This annual one-day conference, Ladd said, starts with breakfast and registration at 8 a.m., then ends around 3:30 in the afternoon.

“We have a variety of speakers,” Ladd said. “We always have some of faculty and staff here from the agricultural economics department at OSU speak and then we try to bring in outside speakers.”

This year, Ladd said, Jim Mintert from Purdue University will be talking about challenges facing agricultural producers.

“Then, we are going to have an industry speaker discuss supply chain issues, which has been kind of a hot topic lately,” Ladd said. “We are still finalizing that person, so we can’t say for certain the name yet, but we are working on that.”

This conference has historically been targeted toward producers, ag lenders and policymakers, Ladd said, and they also invite extension educators because they work closely with producers across the state.

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