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			<h2>Live Q&A with Michael Langemeier on 1/17/19 at 1:30pm CST</h2>		
			<h1>Associate Director, Center for Commercial Agriculture</h1>		
			<h1>Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics</h1>		
			<h2>Farm Performance Management</h2>		
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			<p>Michael Langemeier</p>		
			<h2>Guest Speaker Bio</h2>		
			<p>Michael Langemeier joined Purdue University in July 2012. Michael’s Extension and research interests include cropping systems, benchmarking, strategic management, cost of production, and technical and economic efficiency. Most of Michael’s research has focused on the efficiency of farms and ranches, and crop and livestock enterprise production costs and efficiency. He has also conducted research related to tillage systems, biomass crops and the tradeoff between crop rotation profitability and water quality.<br><br>
Prior to arriving at Purdue, Michael spent 22 years in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University. In addition to working on Extension and research projects, Michael taught courses in economic theory and farm management and worked closely with the Kansas Farm Management Association. He also conducted workshops for feed mill managers, emphasizing the importance of tracking financial performance, benchmarking and capital budgeting.<br><br>
In addition to conducting numerous workshops and presenting Extension and research information to numerous audiences in the United States, Michael has conducted workshops and given presentations in Australia, China, Ecuador, Ireland, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and Tanzania. He is currently involved in agri benchmark, an international benchmarking group centered in Germany.<br><br>
Michael received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His doctorate is from Purdue University. Michael’s family operates farms in eastern Nebraska.</p>		
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			<p>Justin Durdan</p>		
			<h2>Managing Partner of Durdan Farms</h2>		
			<p>Justin Durdan is a managing partner of Durdan farms, a fourth generation family farm operation near Streator, IL. His current production is over 10,000 acres of corn in LaSalle, Livingston, Ford, Piatt, and McLean counties. <br><br>
Through personal growth and education in business development, his vision is to continue to set the pace for being elite producers in agriculture. His mission is to maintain a high level of standards for the operation, in order to effectively position the family farm to succeed in generations to come. <br><br> 
With over 30 farm owner families and farm management companies that we operate for, we feel it is important to get information that is happening at the farm level back to its owners. The technology that we use in our equipment can produce maps for us to use to make better management decisions. We are now making all of the maps available online so they can be viewed at your convenience.</p>		
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			<p>Aaron Gingerich</p>		
			<h2>Operations and Crop Production Manager</h2>		
			<p>Aaron is the operations & crop production manager at Gingerich Farms.  His daily activities involve decisions regarding the products, activities, methods or technologies used in the production of crops at Gingerich Farms. Aaron is also responsible for human resources, employee development, and training needed to do the daily activities needed for the family’s central IL operation.</p>		
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			<p>Arsalan Lodhi</p>		
			<h2>Moderator</h2>		
			<p>Arsalan is the founder and CEO of WISRAN since 2016. His motivation in agriculture is find new profit opportunities for farmers using his past experiences in technology and management consulting. <br><br>
Prior to launching Work Intelligence System Running Analytics (WISRAN) platform, Arsalan worked for IBM, Accenture and Ernst & Young where he has helped Fortune 1000 companies with evolving business models, strategies and supply chain efficiency to find new revenue and cost reduction opportunities. <br><br>
He has attended MIT, NYU Stern and Cal State Long Beach with majors in Computer Science and Business. He is the author of two books, earned multiple patents. When not traveling, Arsalan enjoys reading books, talking to customers and planning for the next adventure with the wife and kids.</p>		
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