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Friday, November 1, 2019
Panel discussions mix financial planning, hemp
By GEOFF PARKS
For the Capital Press
The Willamette Valley Ag Expo’s 19th year
will begin with a kick-off workshop of Family
Farm Business 2020 Strategy Panels at 7:30 a.m.
on Tuesday, Nov. 12.
The event is the beginning of a new collab-
oration between the Oregon State University
Austin Family Business Program and the Wil-
lamette Valley Ag Advisors. It is intended to get
farm families “ready for long-term success.”
“(The Ag Advisors) is a loose affiliation of all
of the accountants, insurance brokers and bank-
ers who work with farm families,” said Sherri
Noxel, director of the OSU program. “They
came to us and said they wanted to be able to
serve our farm families better, and that starts
with farm family succession.”
Jill Ingalls, Ag Expo co-producer, said the
workshops are a perfect fit.
“The Willamette Valley Ag Expo loves part-
nering with other organizations and working
together whenever possible,” she said. “This is
a great example.”
Noxel said the program is targeted at the ag
advisors in the valley and their family business
clients.
“It’s about community coming together,”
she said, adding the workshop is timed to kick
off the Expo beginning on Tuesday morning at
the Holiday Inn Express and Suites, adjacent to
the Expo site at the Linn County Fair & Expo
Center.
Noxel said the workshop will feature moder-
ators Terry Kuenzi of the Ag Advisors for a Leg-
islative Update panel and Jeff Steiner of OSU’s
Hemp Innovation Center for a Hemp Update
panel.
A discussion will focus on the impacts of new
rules on farm businesses and the latest insights
into the hemp industry.
The workshop “is not about legislation or pol-
itics, it’s about the business: ‘I’m operating in
this regulatory environment. What does it mean
to me?’” Noxel said. “There won’t be a formal
structure with a presentation. We want the pan-
els to also be accessible so that we can learn from
each other. It’s really about education.”
The Family Farm Business 2020 Strategy Panels
workshop will be from 7:30 to 10 a.m. in the Holi-
day Inn Express & Suites, 125 Opal Ct. NE, Albany.
Participants may register online at business.
oregonstate.edu/businessonline, or by calling
(541) 737-3326. Cost is $25 per person, which
includes breakfast and an Ag Expo ticket.
Geoff Parks/For the Capital Press
Sherri Noxel, director of the Austin Family Business Program at the Oregon
State University College of Business, puts together information to be
shared during a Willamette Valley Ag Expo strategy panel.

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