Network and relax with other top production and
financial professionals at lunch, breaks and the
Mississippi dinner cruise.
H o w y o u ’ l l b e n e f i t f r o m t h e
F B S U s e r C o n f e r e n c e
Wednesday, August 28
9:00 am General Registration. 9:30 am What’s Coming in FBS Software. 10:15 am Quality Data/Quality Decisions.
11:15am New User/Experienced User Forum.
12:00 pm Lunch.
1:00 pm Keynote Address. Paul Neiffer
2:00 pm Crop Cost of Production Benchmarks and Projections. John McNutt and Moe Russell 3:30 pm Technology Integration User Panel. 6:00 pm Mississippi River Dinner Cruise.
Thursday, August 29
8:00 am Breakout Training Sessions. (Follow website for updated agenda.) Track 1:
• Hedge Accounting for Crops. • Hedge Accounting for Livestock. Paul Neiffer and Norm Brown • Producing What Auditors Need from FBS. Robert Wolfe Track 2:
• Going Paperless. • Tracking Multiple Entities. • Electronic Crop Data. • Customizing Financial Reports. • Payroll/Hired Labor Tracking Issues.
12:00 pm Lunch sponsored by
1:00 pm Breakouts Continue. Track 1:
• Pork Cost of Production Benchmarks. John McNutt • Managing Marketing Data & Variation to Achieve Full Value Pigs. Joe Gooding • Better Ways of Viewing Your Data.
Track 2:
• Farm/Trust Manager Training.
4:00 pm Adjourn.
“Awesome. Great growth. Very interactive!”
“A very informative seminar.”
“Very good—great variety of topics—something for everyone.”
“A great place to exchange ideas and receive new information that can be implemented on the farm.”
“Great to meet the staff and ask specific questions.” 2012 Conference Attendees
This Year’s Conference Location
To regis ter fo r the conference or for more in formation :
Call: FBS @ 800.437.7638 / Ext. 2
E-mail: [email protected] or
visit fbssystems.com/FBS-Farm-Computer-
User-Conference
50% savings if you register by Friday,
August 9th, 2013.
To reserve your room at the Stoney Creek Inn
call (309) 743-0101 and request the FBS
room block. Hotel reservations must be
made by July 26th to ensure availability
and rates.
Learn how to take control of your own information as
you gain a new perspective on the competitive stature
of your enterprises. At the FBS 2013 User Conference
you’ll learn best practices for enhancing the accuracy,
availability and analytical power from your internal
data as you compare production cost benchmarks
with elite ag producers from across North America.
Stay ahead of the curve with innovative technologies
and management practices .
101 18th Street
Moline, IL
Enjoy a prime rib dinner cruise
on the mighty Mississippi!
W h y y o u c a n ’ t m i s s t h i s y e a r ’ s C o n f e r e n c e
2 0 1 3
F a r m
C o m p u t e r
U s e r
C o n f e r e n c e
River’s Bend Conference Center Moline, Illinois
Date : 8 .28-8 .29 .13
John McNutt, M.B.A.
Moe Russell, M.B.A.
Robert Wolfe, C.P.A.
1855 55th Avenue
Aledo, IL 6
1231
Past president of the National Pork Producers Council, John is a business analyst and consult-ant with Latta, Harris, Hanon & Penningroth, LLP.
Senior Audit Manager with Frost, PLLC, Little Rock, Robert is engaged primarily in audit of food and agricultural clients.
F e a t u r e d S p e a k e r s
Announcin
g the 2013 FBS User Conference,
August 28 - 29
Making Precision Decisions in the era of Big Data.
Paul Neiffer, C.P.A.
An Agribusiness advisor with Clif-tonLarsonAllen LLP Agribusiness Group, Paul is best known as “The Farm CPA” with the Farm Journal Top Producer Magazine.
President of Russell Consulting Group, Moe specializes in risk management, H.R. management, business planning and feasibility analysis.
Jack serves as Vice President Sales and Marketing at Con-servis which provides mobile cloud-based tools for track-ing crop inputs and grain movements.
Jack Makowski, M.B.A.
Joe serves as Swine Analyt-ics Consultant with Elanco focusing on value added services for customer pro-duction and marketing data
Joe Gooding, M.S.