FEBRUARY 25

AgLaunch Start-up Station

AgLaunch is bringing its Startup Station back to the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show for a fifth time. The Startup Station will host some of the most innovative ag tech entrepreneurs from across the country to showcase how their ideas will shape the future of food and agriculture. It serves as the culmination of Phase II of the AgLaunch365 programming, a farm-centric model that supports ag tech companies with real-world solutions addressing on-farm issues by connecting them to farmers.    

1:00 pm

National Cotton Council Farm Bill Seminar: Challenges and Opportunities with the Next Farm Bill -

Reece Langley, Vice President, Washington Operations, National Cotton Council

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This seminar will provide an overview and outlook on the challenges and opportunities for the next farm bill that Congress is expected to develop in 2023.  It will include a discussion of the major policy and political drivers in farm policy development in the current budget and political environment.  This will also include an assessment of how the current focus on climate policy, along with the cotton industry’s U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol can be a positive influence for farm policy that will benefit U.S. cotton producers and the entire cotton supply chain. 

2:15 pm

Climate Friendly Products and Carbon Offsetting: Are Carbon Credits the Next Income Opportunity? 

John Farris, Founder & CEO, AgriCapture and Larry McClendon, Marianna, AR

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AgriCapture unlocks additional revenue streams for farmers and landowners through climate-friendly certified product premiums and carbon offsetting projects. Attend this presentation to learn about unexplored opportunities available to landowner and farmer partners including AgriCapture Climate Friendly certifications for cotton, rice, and beef. On-farm carbon credit generation from soil enrichment projects create additional revenue and increase land value. Building on agricultural experience in the Mid-South, a personalized approach and regenerative farming expertise, AgriCapture creates solutions that make sustainable agriculture a win-win-win opportunity.  

2:30 pm

Mid-South NAMA Student Competition

5:00 pm

Mid-South Farm & Gin Show Closes

FEBRUARY 26

9:00 am

12:30 pm

Special Rice Educational Seminar 

Milo Hamilton, Co-founder and Senior Agricultural Economist of Firstgrain, Inc.
 

Rice rules of thumb may not work so well in 2022. Is the price of rice shaking your world? Is the cost of growing it shaking your world? This workshop looks at the rice price as trapped between uncertain input costs and other factors you may never have thought about before. We will be in Memphis to help you sort through your new crop rice price outlook.

1:00 pm

4-H Chopped Meal Preparation Challenge 

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4-H members from Arkansas and Tennessee will compete in a food challenge at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show to demonstrate their knowledge and skills as it relates to preparing a healthy meal with items commonly found in a local food pantry. Contest will emphasize limiting food waste, food efficiency, and healthiness of a meal. Attend the award ceremony to see the winning recipes and the top three 4-H Chopped teams!

4:30 pm

Mid-South Farm & Gin Show Closes

9:00 pm

The Jamboree (Adults only, please) Everyone Welcome! Cash Bar - The Peabody Hotel, Grand Ballroom 

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Music by: The Krackerjacks, the party band of the South  

Brought to you by Jamboree Sponsors: 

Chem Cotton, Indianola Electric Co., KBH Corporation, Kelley Electric, Kimbell Gin Machinery, Lummus Ag Technology, Olam Cotton, Planters Cotton Oil Mill, Signode Packaging Systems, Square Weber LLC, Stover Equipment, Vandergriff American/Sowega MFG, Wildwood Cotton Technologies