Farm Show Speaker & Demonstration Schedule

Wednesday March 5th, 2025

  • 10:00 a.m. AgRobotics Demonstration - Booths 706B & 706E - Grain Farmers of Ontario Pavilion - Agriplex

  • 1:00 p.m. Moe Agostino - Will the 2025 Trump Trade War 2.0 Derail Ag commodities? Feast or Famine? - BMO Centre Stage

  • 2:00 p.m. Jonathan Giret, Elite Agri Solutions  - Off-Farm Income Strategies  - BMO Centre Stage 

  • 3:00 p.m. Heather Horning, Citizens Concerned About Biosolids  - Concerns with Use and Storage - BMO Centre Stage 

  • 3:00 p.m. AgRobotics Demonstration - Booths 706B & 706E - Grain Farmers of Ontario Pavilion - Agriplex

  • 10:00 a.m. AgRobotics Demonstration - Booths 706B & 706E - Grain Farmers of Ontario Pavilion - Agriplex

Thursday March 6th, 2025

  • 11:30 a.m. Jim Collins, Founder - Harvest Hands Presentation  - BMO Centre Stage

  • 1:00 p.m. Moe Agostino - Will the 2025 Trump Trade War 2.0 Derail Ag commodities? Feast or Famine? - BMO Centre Stage

  • 12:00 p.m. CAMA Student Chapter Pitch Presentation - BMO Centre Stage

  • 2:00 p.m. TerraNova UAV - Drone demonstration - BMO Centre Stage 

  • 3:00 p.m. AgRobotics Demonstration - Booths 706B & 706E - Grain Farmers of Ontario Pavilion - Agriplex

  • 10:30 a.m. AgRobotics Demonstration - Booths 706B & 706E - Grain Farmers of Ontario Pavilion - Agriplex

Friday March 7th, 2025

  • 1:00p.m. TerraNova UAV - Drone demonstration - BMO Centre Stage 

  • 10:30 a.m. Steve Dolson, Board Chair  - An exciting look at the Ontario Agri-Food Discovery Centre  - BMO Centre Stage 

  • 1:30p.m. ManagePoint Technologies Mitigating Risk to your Farm Business - Brad Andrews, Owner - BMO Centre Stage

  • 2:00p.m. AgRobotics Demonstration - Booths 706B & 706E - Grain Farmers of Ontario Pavilion - Agriplex

*Schedule subject to change. Please watch our website as we will have additional speaker topics added. *

Moe Agostino Talk Information

Moe Agostino

Moe has over 43+ years of experience in trading markets, commodity risk management and marketing, the last 21+ years with Farms.com Risk Management. His primary areas of expertise include grains, basis, livestock, feed, futures/options, energy/diesel, fertilizer/input purchases and both technical and fundamental analysis with a global and local market perspective.

Farms.com Risk Management is a Commodity Research Boutique specializing in providing commodity information to farmers and agribusiness’ across North America.

Developed in 2018 our mobile marketing app provides our customers with easy access to the information they need 24/7 on their smart phones to keep them informed and help them make better marketing input purchasing decisions. The mobile app includes breaking news text alerts, daily market quotes, setting future price targets, knowing when to pull the trigger, future price targets, timely marketing recommendations, change in trend analysis and includes a monthly basis report to protect farmers from the excesses and volatility in commodity prices. 

Moe is a sought after speaker who presents to groups across the USA and Canada and is the publisher of https://www.farms.com/market-school/ an on-line learning educational video series, and a regular contributor to Better Farming, Better Farming Prairies  and Better Pork magazines with Moe’s Market Minute.  Moe has participated in 3 Quebec Crop tours, and has organized and led 10 U.S. crop tours and 9 Great ON Yield Tours #ONYield23, since 2012. Moe also helps with the production and marketing of the 2,100-acre corporate farm aka Port Dover Farms owned since 2005. His track record speaks for itself

Steve Dolson, Chair of the Board, Ontario Agri-Food Discovery Centre 

Steve brings extensive experience and an impressive background in rural community organizations to our board. After earning his B.Sc. in Agriculture from the Ontario Ag College in Guelph, he provided extensive education services to Ontario farmers through the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food. In 1985, Steve and his wife Karen moved to Perth County and established the nationally recognized dairy herd, Legacy Holsteins. Over the years, Steve has lent his leadership skills to the local 4-H program, the Listowel Ag Society, and numerous dairy industry boards and committees at both the provincial and national level. Most notably, Steve has become well-known across Ontario as the past chair of Ontario’s largest Dairy Co-operative, Gay Lea Foods. The Ontario Agri-Food Discovery Centre is thrilled to have his expertise and passion driving its mission forward. 

Heather Horning, Citizens Concerns About Biosolids 

Heather was raised on a farm in Ontario and currently resides in a rural area in Middlesex County. 

She first became interested in learning about sewage biosolids several years ago after experiencing respiratory issues and nausea relating to the noxious odour from a relatively small pile of sewage biosolids stored near her home.  Gathering with friends and neighbours, they began to research sewage biosolids and were surprised by what they learned.  They were also disappointed that the government was ignoring the human health and environmental issues relating to the use and storage of sewage biosolids. 

Heather’s goal is to share this accumulated research, information and real-life experiences and encourage others to ask:  Is it safe to spread municipal sewage on our farmland? 

For more information and links to our source material, kindly email Heather at ccab.ontario@gmail.com or follow the Facebook page Stop Spreading Sewage. 

CAMA Student Chapter: 

Since its inception in 2000, the University of Guelph Canadian Agri-Food Marketers Alliance (CAMA) Student Chapter has given students the opportunity to apply marketing, business and economic concepts to a realistic marketing plan. Each academic year a group of students are selected to work together to develop a professional marketing plan for a new and innovative agricultural product. A plan is created that includes a market analysis, promotional plan, placement strategy, competitive analysis, financial plan, monitoring and measuring goals. Workshops, professional meetings and events are also hosted throughout the year to help students to build and refine their skills in idea development, market research, product positioning and presentation building. At the culmination of the year, the student group travels to the National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) Student Marketing Competition in the United States to present their marketing plan in a competition with more than 25 North American postsecondary schools.