How do you start a successful farm meeting? For the Farm Futures Business Summit, how the event got its start is interesting and Mike Wilson, editor of Farm Futures, offers that history. He also shares how the Ag Finance Boot Camp got its start.

Creating a useful, information-packed event that brings farmers back year after year isn't easy, but Mike Wilson, his editorial team and the events group at Farm Progress are making it happen and the event returns in 2021 live but moved from January to June. The official dates or June 15 for the Ag Finance Boot Camp, and June 16 and 17 for the Business Summit.

You can learn more at FarmFuturesSummit.com, and you can save 20% on your registration by using the promo code FARMFUN when you register. But before you do, listen to the story of how the event was created and get a preview of the 2021 event by listening to this episode of Around Farm Progress.

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