16 Watertown Winter Farm Show
CHAMPIONS OF AGRICULTURE
Friday, February 12, 2016
-Featured Speakers -
Livestock Show Ring
Jolene Brown
Jolene Brown is a farmer, author, professional speaker, and
champion for the people of agriculture. She’s from West
Branch, Iowa. Jolene travels worldwide sharing leading-edge
best practices that have the power to increase productivity,
profitability and peace of mind. Those who hear her messag-
es celebrate her passion, fun-filled spirit, real life stories and
valuable take-home information. Jolene encourages, teaches
and celebrates the people of agriculture who feed, clothe and
fuel the world.
10:00 am
“Stop the Fighting on the Way to the Funeral Home!”
™
It happens, far too often in agriculture. Promises are spoken
and broken, facts are assumed, habits are hardened…and be-
fore we know it, we’ve got family fighting on the way to the
funeral home. It’s time we learn from the mistakes of others
and work for positive results.
In this insightful and fun-filled presentation, Jolene minces no
words. She wraps the valuable points in real life stories gath-
ered from her years of consulting with the families of agricul-
ture. From conversations to contracts, from assumptions to
clarification, from complaints to celebrations, she’ll open our
eyes and save fighting on the way to the funeral home.
1:30 pm
“Farmer Brown on Family Business”
™
Jolene’s been called agriculture’s version of Dr. Phil. Her 30+
years of working with farm and ranch families have taught
her valuable lessons of what works...and what doesn’t. She
know that if you want to honor the family, you’d better do
the business right. If not, you may end up with neither family
nor business.
In a no-nonsense interactive question and answer session,
she’ll listen to your stories, questions and concerns about
your family farm business. She’ll bring her insight and test
take-home tools to create a positive transition for labor, man-
agement, leadership and ownership.
With lots of laughter and unscripted but focused conversa-
tion, you’ll learn what it takes to identify roadblocks and take
positive action. Together we’ll celebrate the joys of making a
good family business even better.
Dr. Greg Quakenbush
Dr. Greg Quakenbush is a Veterinary Consultant who has
been actively involved in large animal medicine for 38 years.
He is currently working with the Geissler Corporation of
Minneapolis, Minnesota - a company that discovers, develops
and implements new diagnostic and health solutions for the
beef cattle industry (e.g. WhisperR). From 1994 to 2013, he
worked for Pfizer (Zoetis) Animal Health, where he spent
the last 12 years serving as the Director of the US Cattle
Technical Services team.
Dr. Q is a graduate of Colorado State University. Following
graduation, he spent 16 years in private practice in Porterville,
California. Currently, he resides in Valencia, California with
his wife, Patti. Greg and Patti have 2 daughters, DeAnne and
Julie, who have blessed them with 6 grandkids and 2 sons-in-
law. Dr. Q enjoys shooting, fly-fishing, and pretending to be a
gentleman farmer as he is active in growing citrus and nuts in
the land associated with the same.
11:15 am
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