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Southwest Agricultural Conference

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Southwest Agricultural Conference

Time: January 3, 2013 to January 4, 2013
Location: University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus
Website or Map: http://www.southwestagconfere…
Event Type: agricultural, conference
Organized By: University of Guelph
Latest Activity: Nov 30, 2012

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Event Description

Greetings from the Southwest Ag Conference!

The crop is in and the returns are fantastic! The 19th annual Southwest Agricultural Conference at Ridgetown Campus harvested a bumper crop of ideas, information and news, with record attendance over two days. Over 1600 at the University of Guelph Ridgetown Campus and more than 225 joining in at the five satellite locations across 0ntario.

The Southwest Ag Conference extends its sincere thanks to the generous sponsors, talented speakers, hardworking organizing team and to all those producer attendees and agribusiness partners for challenging us to meet your needs for the growing new year!

Don’t forget to visit the 2012 Conference proceedings page, including audio and video session recordings or our archive section from last year.

There is a limited supply of 2012 Conference Workbooks available for purchase for: $10.00 plus $5.00 shipping. Contact the Ag Business Centre at 1-866-222-9682 or us the Contact Us page.

The 20th Anniversary of the Southwest Agricultural Conference is on Thursday January 3, & Friday January 4, 2013. Until then have a great 2012!

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