{"id":7884,"date":"2013-09-27T07:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2013-09-27T07:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:55:04","slug":"north-central-nama-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"North Central NAMA Cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/NCCruise1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7885\" alt=\"NCCruise1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/images\/\/NCCruise1.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>North Central NAMA members gathered Wednesday, September 4, for a boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka, MN.\u00c2\u00a0 The event kicked off with a cocktail reception where members networked and caught up with fellow professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Usset,\u00c2\u00a0 Grain Marketing Specialist who teaches a Commodity Marketing class at the University of MN, facilitated a discussion on the current state of the industry comparing it to the last \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Golden Age of Agriculture\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 10 years prior to WWII.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Usset detailed the concept of parity pricing &#8211; the purchasing power of a particular commodity relative to a farmer&#8217;s expenses.\u00c2\u00a0 With the recent commodity prices and production levels at historical levels, Mr. Usset believes we are experiencing another golden era.\u00c2\u00a0 The challenge will be in how marketers prepare for when the good times come to an end.\u00c2\u00a0 The cost of production versus the price\/bushel will inevitably change and marketers need to be ready for how they will deal with that.\u00c2\u00a0 Members then had an opportunity to ask questions and Mr. Usset detailed various international trends that influence the industry including China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s increasing demand for meat, South America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s increasing role in soy exports and GMO issues.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, members enjoyed appetizers, cocktails and a cruise of the shores of Lake Minnetonka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Central NAMA members gathered Wednesday, September 4, for a boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka, MN.\u00c2\u00a0 The event kicked off with a cocktail reception where members networked and caught up with fellow professionals. Ed Usset,\u00c2\u00a0 Grain Marketing Specialist who teaches a Commodity Marketing class at the University of MN, facilitated a discussion on the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-activities","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}