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Mar 4, 2021
Mar 4, 2021

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This year’s keynote speakers offer an array of insights, experience and knowledge. Conference emcee Pam Jahnke is known to many as “the Fabulous Farm Babe.” Growing up on a dairy farm just north of Green Bay, she was surrounded by agriculture. Jahnke is a past-president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, has been named Farm Broadcaster of the Year and has moderated panels for U.S. agricultural secretaries in the White House. The Midwest Farm Report network has grown to encompass 26 stations in Wisconsin and Minnesota, as well as daily appearances on the CBS-TV affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin, and the Fabulous Farm Babe Facebook page. In her spare time Jahnke farms in partnership with her brother, sister and mother on the home farm.

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