Top Producer Summit
Top Producer Summit helps elevate the leading farm business CEOs with education, networking and awards recognition. This year’s Top Producer Summit takes place in Nashville, TN, February 9 - 11, 2026.
Sessions from the first day of Top Producer Summit can be watched on-demand on Farm Journal TV.
With leadership roles on an international stage, Pam Johnson kept her roots close and brought back enriched experiences and new ideas to her Iowa farm.
Farm Journal’s annual Top Producer Summit, agriculture’s premier educational and networking event for forward-thinking farmers and ranchers, is set for Feb. 17-19, 2025, at the Loews Hotel in Kansas City.
“This year’s cohort represents the best in labor-saving robots, rapid diagnostics, new traits and sustainable biologics selected to help farmers now and build a bridge to a more resilient farming system,” said Pete Nelson, President of AgLaunch.
Former Top Producer award winners reveal their management goals for the year ahead.
Trump taps Howard Lutnick for Commerce Secretary, signaling tariff-heavy trade strategy. Lutnick has called the tariffs a negotiating tool that could be used to convince other countries to bring down their own levies or to force companies to move production to the U.S.
Threats of widespread tariffs and concerns about retaliation continue to stoke uneasiness in agriculture. With a growing trade deficit and hopes the U.S. could re-embark on the Phase One trade deal with China, could the focus back on trade be positive for agriculture?
The Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act, which builds on the proposal Stabenow released in May, includes $39 billion in new resources “to keep farmers farming, families fed and rural communities strong.”
“The agricultural economy is inherently cyclical, and ag lenders are navigating the changing conditions across the sectors they serve,” said Jackson Takach, chief economist of Farmer Mac.
This Top Producer Summit workshop with Mark Faust will outfit you with the tools you need.
Kyle Scheele shares six ways constraints can be a good thing to your operation.