CONVENTION PROGRAMMARCH 4-6, 2018

~ AGENDA~ FLOOR PLAN

~ SPEAKER BIOS~ APP INSTRUCTIONS~ AWARD RECIPIENTS

~ BREAKOUTS & FARM TOURS

PROGRAMCONTENTS

WELCOME TO KANSAS CITY

Welcome to National Farmers Union’s 116th Anniversary Convention at The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center!

I am honored this year to welcome an outstanding line-up of speakers and distinguished experts from various fields of agriculture, including USDA’s Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett, American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, and Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Art Cullen.

We have an excellent local tour and set of breakout sessions planned, so please take full advantage of our convention programming both during and outside of our general sessions.

Be sure to take in our unique grassroots policy-setting process on Monday and Tuesday, as we shape the vision and priorities of the organization for the coming year.

Also, take in all of the historic sites, vibrant arts, and Midwestern hospitality that Kansas City has to offer. You can find a list of restaurants and attractions in our convention app!

I would like to sincerely thank our sponsors, as this convention would not be possible without their generous support.

Thank you for attending our 116th Anniversary Convention and for your continued support of National Farmers Union.

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AGENDASunday, March 4

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Policy Comm. Available for Presentations (Pershing South)11:00 a.m. - Registration & Exhibits Open (Foyer/Terrace)1:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Policy Comm. Available for Presentations (Pershing South)2:00 p.m. - Opening Session (Century A/B)

• Farm Town Strong (Opioid) Campaign Panel ~ Roger Johnson, National Farmers Union ~ Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau Federation ~ Anne Hazlett, USDA Office of Rural Development

• Nominations of President and Vice President• Matt Birgen, Meritorious Service Award

4:00 p.m. - Opening Reception (Foyer/Terrace)5:00 p.m. - Opening Banquet (Century A/B)

• Janet Nelson, Meritorious Service Award• Roger Johnson, State of the Farmers Union• Anne Hazlett, USDA Office of Rural Development

7:00 p.m. - NFU Foundation Fundraiser -- Games and Auction (Includes Silent Auction) (Century C)

Monday, March 57:30 a.m. - Registration & Exhibits Open (Foyer/Terrace)8:00 a.m. - General Session (Century A/B)

• Farmers Union Leadership and Membership Awards• Chelsea Matzen, Local Food Safety Collaborative• Jason Kander, Let America Vote• Art Cullen, Storm Lake Times• Sue Carlson, Meritorious Service Award

10:15 a.m. - Farm Tour Departs (Ticketed) (Lunch Included)10:15 a.m. - Breakout Session 1

• Tom Giessel, NFU History (Pershing North)• Poppy Davis, Farm Succession Planning (Pershing E/W)

10:15 a.m. - Farmers Union Insurance Meeting (invite only) 11:30 a.m. - Break for Lunch11:45 a.m. - Lunch & Learns (Ticketed)

• Future of Higher Blends of Ethanol (Pershing E/W)• Genome Editing Applications in Agriculture (Pershing North)

1:00 p.m. - Breakout Session 2• Working Land Conservation Panel (Pershing E/W)• Whole Farm Revenue Insurance (Pershing North)

2:30 p.m. - Convention Delegate Orientation (Century A/B)3:00 p.m. - Election of President and Vice President (Century A/B)3:00 p.m. - NFU Policy Consideration & Adoption (Century A/B)

• Bylaw Amendments Consideration & Adoption6:00 p.m. - NFUF Education Alumni Reception (Harvey’s) 7:00 p.m. - “Farmers For America” Film Screening (Century A/B)7:00 p.m. - “Art of the Brick” Exhibit (Union Station)

Tuesday, March 67:30 a.m. - Registration & Exhibits Open (Foyer/Terrace)8:00 a.m. - NFU Policy Consideration & Adoption (Century A/B)12:30 p.m. - Break for Lunch on Own2:00 p.m. - NFU Policy Consideration & Adoption (Century A/B)

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FLOOR PLAN

Please refer to the convention app or website, NFU.org/convention for any last-minute changes to the agenda.

SPEAKER BIOSJason KanderLet America VoteJason Kander is a husband, a father, and a former Army Captain who served in Afghanistan and as Missouri’s 39th Secretary of State. Jason started Let America Vote in 2017 to fight back against proposals across the country that make it harder for eligible voters to exercise their constitutional right to cast a ballot.

Roger JohnsonNational Farmers Union

Roger Johnson was elected to president of NFU at the organization’s 107th Anniversary Convention in 2009. A third-generation family farmer from Turtle Lake, N.D.,

Johnson previously served as North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner.

Zippy DuvallAmerican Farm Bureau FederationPresident of the American Farm Bureau Federation since January 2016, Zippy Duvall is a third-generation farmer from Georgia. In addition to a 400-head beef cow herd for which he grows his own hay, Duvall and his wife, Bonnie, also grow more than 750,000 broilers per year.

Anne HazlettUSDA Office of Rural

DevelopmentAnne Hazlett oversees Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. An Indiana native, she has a deep and lifelong passion for rural America, small towns

and the people who call them home.

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OUR SHARED VISIONOUR VISION IS OF...

OUR MISSION IS TO...

A world in which farm families and their communities are respected, valued, and enjoy economic prosperity and

social justice.

Advocate for family farmers and their communities through education, cooperation, and legislation.

AND WE VALUE...

- Integrity -Maintaining the highest

standards of honesty, accountability, and

morality.

- Influence -Driving political,

educational, and social change on behalf of family farmers, ranchers, and their

communities.

- Leadership -Inspiring and

empowering future leaders of agriculture

and rural communities.

- Stewardship -Responsible and

respectful use and care for all resources—

human, natural, and financial.

- Inclusivity -Ensuring all people are

welcome and valued in Farmers Union,

and all members are represented fairly in

policy, education, and society.

- Transparency -Being clear, honest and forthright in our words, processes, and actions.

FARM TOUR

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Visit Shatto Milk Company with NFU this Monday! Take a tour of the processing plant. See the bottling process in-cluding how they prep bottles for re-use. Meet, and possibly bottle feed, some adorable calves. Milk a cow. See where the cows eat, sleep and how they’re milked. Sample. And then sample again. Spaces are limited. Be sure to sign up at registration as soon as you arrive!

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to detect losses before they happen!

LUNCH & LEARNFuture of Higher Blends of Ethanol - Join this exciting, discussion about state- and federal-level efforts that are encouraging use of higher level blends of ethanol. We will also discuss the health benefits of renewable fuels and why higher-level blends of ethanol are a win-win for farmers and consumers.

Genome Editing Applications in Agriculture - What is genome editing? How does it resemble and differ from the many genetic modification techniques that plant and animal breeders have used for centuries? This seminar will provide answers to those questions.

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD TO FARMERS UNION AND TO AMERICAN AGRICULTURE

Janet Nelson

Janet Nelson has been married to Julian Nelson for over 58 years, operating a 360-acre dairy farm in Barron County, Wisconsin, originally started by Julian’s grandparents. They have milked 56 cows in years past, but have cut down to a manageable amount for granddaughters, Brittany and Bailee George to help Julian with.

Wherever Janet goes, she is promoting family farms and the way of life she is so honored to be a part of. She and Julian won’t quit farming because they don’t want another family farm added to the loss count. She strongly believes this country needs family farms and Farmers Union. Janet has been a member of Farmers Union since 1961 and in the 70’s, a Barron County F.U. officer asked her to attend her first fly-in. Ever since, she has played a significant role in Farmers Union and American agriculture.

Matt Birgen

Matt Birgen has made a notable impact on Farmers Union and the agriculture industry as a whole. He has served on his Clay County Farmers Union board for over 50 years, he has also served on

multiple other boards since coming back from the Korean war and starting his own operation in 1955.

He cares about our environment, the success and collaboration of local communities and agricultural organizations. Education and leadership are also priorities to Matt, teaching our future generations how to stay involved in agriculture and caring about the wellbeing of our farmers and ranchers. He represents our farmers and ranchers because he is one himself. Matt is someone who strives to help others and makes sure they are being equally represented. He has shown tremendous leadership in the agricultural industry on a statewide and national level. He is an advocate, a producer, a hard worker, and above all he stands for all things that embody our agricultural industry.

Susan Carlson

Sue Carlson is a passionate family farm advocate and has championed Farmers Union policies for most of her life. She provided strong leadership at every level - from serving as a youth leader in her local, to president of Wisconsin Farmers Union, to sitting on the NFU Board of Directors and Executive Committee, and in developing the World Farmers’ Organization (WFO).

Most recently, she played a key role in development of the Women’s Committee of the WFO. Sue worked tirelessly to grow WFO’s efforts to expand participation by women farmers and recognize the vital role that women farmers provide in our world’s agricultural and rural economies. Her work raised the general visibility of WFO, helped build understanding of its mission, and established enduring partnerships between organizations and governments around the essential role of women in agriculture around the world.

MILT HAKEL AGRICULTURE COMMUNICATIONS AWARD

Art CullenThe Storm Lake Times

Art Cullen, 59, is co-owner with his older brother John of The Storm Lake Times, a 3,000-circulation twice-weekly newspaper in Storm Lake, Iowa, pop. 10,000, in rural Northwest Iowa. Art is editor

and John is publisher. Art is a Storm Lake native who earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn.

In 2017, Cullen received a Pulitzer Prize for editorials “fueled by tenacious reporting, impressive expertise and engaging writing that successfully challenged powerful corporate agricultural interests in Iowa.” His insight informs family farmers on how to develop policy and advocate for themselves effectively.

MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD TO AGRICULTURE AND TO WORLD AGRICULTURE

BREAKOUT SESSIONS #1

Working Lands Conservation PanelWorking lands conservation programs play a key role in improving soil health, water and air quality, and wildlife habitat. Participants will learn from NRCS, resilient agriculture experts, and farmers about how working lands conservation practices can benefit their farm and how the 2018 Farm Bill might impact NRCS’s financial assistance programs.

Improve Your Results with Whole Farm Revenue, the New Crop Insurance Product

Dave Paul, Vice President of Underwriting for NAU Country, will provide an overview of how the landscape of crop insurance has changed with the introduction of the Whole Farm Revenue Protection program (WFRP). Participants will learn how the program works and why producers in different parts of the country are adding WFRP to their risk management portfolio.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS #2

On behalf of America’s sugar farmers,

Thank you, NFU, for defending American jobs

by fi ghting unfair foreign subsidies and

supporting a strong U.S. sugar policy.

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Congratulations to our partners at NFU for 115 years of serving farmers.

NFU History: The Art of Agitation with Tom Giessel

Are you an agitator? Gain insight on the birth, growth and expansion of the Farmers Union over the last 116 years and how agitation remains a basic tenet of the organization. We will also profile a number of women and men who inspired their fellow farmers and ranchers to agitate for the common good and create community, and explore what modern day agitation looks like?

Introducing the Legal Tools for Succession and Estate Planning with Poppy Davis

This session will introduce the common models for passing a land-based business through a succession and estate plan. Poppy Davis will introduce the important tools of estate planning, and discuss ways assets are transferred during life, upon death, or over time. The second half of the session will focus on legal and accounting structures used to keep the land or facility where you operate legally and financially distinct from the business itself, and the business structures and legal agreements used to transfer a business.

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