Thank you for attending the 2011 Beef Financial Management Conference (BFMC). We hope you enjoyed your time in Amarillo. From initial feedback, the Conference was a great success. We welcomed over 80 people to the conference, including professionals, knowledgeable speakers, media, and enthusiastic sponsors. There were new attendees and we hope that they will join us again at future BFMC conferences.

Highlights included our speakers: Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, Bill Tierney, William Murphy, David Ward, Justin Gleghorn, Rachel Myers, Ross Wilson, Jason Thomas and Rob Gunther, and an after-hours cocktail mixer complete with drawings for a pair of custom hand-made boots and an iPad 2. Congratulations to Buster McLain and Joel Bassinger for winning.

A special thank you to those that took the time to conduct the presentations and to our much-appreciated sponsors, Frost, PLLC, Great Plains Ag Credit, Commodity Risk Management (CRM), Commodity & Ingredient Hedging, LLC (CIH), Brock Thompson Trading, LLC, and J. D. Heiskell & Company.

When we have set a date for the 2012 conference, we will notify you so you can mark your calendars

Please visit the following links for BFMC news:

http://www.newschannel10.com/story/15636194/state-climatologist-drought-may-last-another-decade

http://southwestfarmpress.com/print/livestock/beef-demand-expected-strong-through-2012

You can access and print hard copies of the conference presentations by visiting the following link:

http://www.cpe-conference.com/conferencepresentations.html