AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY SYMPOSIUM 2025
Cultivating Tomorrow: Regeneration & Resilience
Tuesday, January 28 - Thursday, January 30, 2025
Delta Hotels St. John's Conference Centre
The annual Agriculture Industry Symposium is the single largest gathering of agriculture leaders in Newfoundland and Labrador. This three-day, in-person event is for farmers, industry organizations and partners from across the province to gather and connect on the state of the industry and its importance to the provincial economy.
The theme for this year's Symposium is Cultivating Tomorrow: Regeneration & Resilience. The purpose is to provide educational opportunities, to promote industry sectors and to discuss priorities and challenges related to the social and economic conditions of those engaged in agricultural pursuits in NL.
Tickets
NLFA Members - $120
Non-Members - $170
Discounts:
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Members of NL commodity groups are eligible for 20% off ticket prices
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Agriculture Expo 2024 Booth Holders are eligible for special pricing
Do you fit in one of these two groups? (Or both?) Email us for details on how to claim your deal!
Keynote Speakers
Shaun Haney
RealAgriculture
Founder of RealAgriculture, Shaun Haney manages one of the leading industry ag media companies for Canadian farmers and ranchers. RealAgriculture provides the latest in ag policy, agronomics, current events and farm management from their website, radio shows, and podcast streams. Shaun is the host of RealAg Radio which is broadcast across North America on Rural Radio Channel 147 on SiriusXM daily at 4:30 PM Eastern, and also makes regular appearances on RFD-TV, Agritalk and US Farm Report. Together with Justin Funk of Agri Studies, Shaun helms RealAgristudies, a market insights partnership formed in 2019.
Peter Johnson
RealAgriculture
@WheatPete is the resident agronomist with Real Agriculture, where he posts a weekly podcast “Wheat Pete’s Word”. He is a regular on “Agronomy Monday” on RealAg radio, Sirius Satellite Radio 147. Peter spent 30 years as the Ontario Cereal Specialist, and loves to talk anything agriculture, especially wheat! He leads the Middlesex Soil and Crop Improvement Association’s applied research program and was inducted into the Middlesex County Agricultural Hall of Fame in 2022. Peter operates a small farm near Lucan, Ontario, where he constantly tries out new production ideas, and where the “rubber hits the road”!
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Ben Hartman
Clay Bottom Farm
Ben Hartman is the author of three books, including The Lean Micro Farm (Chelsea Green, 2023) and The Lean Farm (Chelsea Green, 2016), winner of the prestigious Shingo Institute Research and Professional Publication Award. In 2017, Ben was named one of fifty emerging green leaders in the United States by Grist. Ben and his wife, Rachel Hershberger, own and operate Clay Bottom Farm in Goshen, Indiana, where they make their living growing specialty crops on 1/3 acre of land in production. Ben has developed an online course in lean farming, at claybottomfarm.com, and he has consulted for USAID.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Your contribution and participation in this event is a valuable investment in the long-term growth of this priority sector in Newfoundland and Labrador!
Increase your brand exposure through direct contact with our farmers, event advertising and speaking opportunities that help boost your brand equity. You'll have direct contact with attendees with warm business leads which can be highly informative for product development & market research.
All sponsorship opportunities can be customized to suit your needs. Please don't hesitate to reach out to Sara Power, NLFA's Public Trust & Marketing Manager, at sara@nlfa.ca to discuss what sponsorship option works best for you or download this document for more information. If you prefer to purchase your sponsorship online, visit this website.
Awards Banquet Sponsor - $13,000
Awards Reception Sponsor - $4,000
Welcome Reception Sponsor - $7,500
Movie Night Sponsor - $5,000
Lunch Sponsor - $5,000
Nutrition Break Sponsor - $3,000
All sponsorship opportunities can be customized to suit your needs and can include free registrations, speaking opportunities, logo recognition, acknowledgement in remarks, option to include an item in the delegate kits, and more.
Important Info
When booking your room at the Delta Hotels St. John's Conference Centre, use this link or mention the Newfoundland & Labrador Federation of Agriculture when calling 709-739-6404.