Welcome to the 2025 Indiana Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ag Professionals Conference event page.
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Speakers
Temple Grandin
Professor & Author
Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed for handling livestock are used by many companies around the world. She has also been instrumental in implementing animal welfare auditing programs used by McDonalds, Wendy’s, Whole Foods and other corporations.

Grandin has appeared on numerous TV shows such as 20/20, Larry King Live and Prime Time. Her books include: "Thinking in Pictures," "Livestock Handling" and "Transport and The Autistic Brain." Her book "Animals in Translation" has been on the New York Times Bestseller List. Temple was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in September 2017 and in 2022 was named a Colorado State University Distinguished Professor.
Braxten Nielsen
Motivational speaker
Braxten Nielsen is from Roosevelt Utah. He currently lives there with his wife, Heather, and daughter, Jaida. He grew up loving the outdoors where he did a lot of camping, hunting, fishing, and working on his family’s ranch with his dad and family. He excelled in sports and was a three-sport athlete throughout high school where he received all-state football, basketball, and baseball recognition and awards.

In college, he joined the college rodeo team and now enjoys team roping.
He is very close to his family and friends and enjoys building new relationships with people everywhere he goes. His motto “We were Born to Succeed” has been a quote that he has lived by and believes in. Nielson wants to share his message about hard work, being resilient and how to keep positive and overcome set backs and challenges.
Agenda Highlights
Agenda highlights include:


- Dynamic speakers

- Industry Tours

- Networking opportunities

- Live Entertainment

Live Entertainment!

Saturday night, conference attendees will enjoy a concert performed by Rye Davis.

Davis is a modern day troubadour from Pig, Kentucky. His smooth, distinctive vocals, captivating songs and live show energy bring his brand of country music to a whole new generation of growing listeners who never knew what country could be.

Armed with a can-do attitude and determination, Rye Davis stands as a beacon of hope for the return of real, down home music.



New this year: Industry Tours

This year, we will be offering industry tours and a community service activity instead of a third round of breakout sessions. Tickets will be available to purchase onsite at registration. You can choose from one of the following (some tours have a fee associated with them and there may be age restrictions):

-Tulip Tree Creamery
-Smoking Goose
-Beck’s Hybrids Headquarters
-Fisher’s AgriPark
-West Fork Whisky Co.
-Community Service at the hotel.

Learn more

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