Women in Agriculture Conference scheduled for Friday morning in Sidney

SIDNEY -- The Women in Agriculture Conference entitled "Hats Off to Ag Women" is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4, at the Sidney Elks Lodge, 1040 Jackson St., Sidney.

Cost of the event is $45. The event is entitled women in agriculture, but is open to any woman in rural area, according to Kristin Dickinson.

"(The event is) for any local women, you don't have to be directly involved in agriculture. It's just a good day for local rural women to come together, to learn a little bit, to have fun and network, and hopefully be inspired throughout the day. We've got a little bit of everything," said Kristin Dickinson.

The conference is several topics of discussion and opportunities for networking.

"We have six presenters, and then we have a gal coming in that's going to work a little bit with health, exercises that you can kind of do can kind of do throughout the day," said Chel McMillen.

The morning starts with registration and a breakfast buffet at 8:30 a.m., followed by the welcome at 9 a.m. At 9:15 a.m., "Grain Marketing Lingo" will be addressed.

Discussion topics also include "Making the Health Choice the Easy Choice," and "FSA Youth Loan Program."

McMillen said the keynote speaker for the day is Cheyenne Wilson. Wilson is a rancher, writer, and photographer specializing in rural business coaching. She will take the stage at 12:30 p.m.

"She is awesome. She does the Native Cowgirl on Facebook. And we have some grain marketing, we have some estate planning, healthy meals for the field and of course Don Day," McMillen said.

Don Day, Jr., of Day Weather Inc., Cheyenne, Wyo., started DayWeather, Inc., soon after graduating from the University of Wyoming in 1992.