Our October meeting details are as follows:
When: Tuesday, October 9th Luncheon Meeting and Presentation
**11:30 a.m. – Networking, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Meal and Program**
Program: By the year 2020, the world will have seen tremendous changes. The world population will most likely exceed 8 billion people, with more than 93 percent of growth taking place in developing countries. Continued population growth, combined with an increasing economic status in developing countries, will require a global effort to feed a hungry world and provide the energy to sustain global economic growth.
John Becherer, Chief Executive Officer – United Soybean Board, will brief us on SOY2020. John directs the implementation of the USB’s budget and manages the soybean checkoff’s national office in Chesterfield, MO. Prior to joining USB, Becherer served as Executive Director for the Conservation Technology Information Center in West Lafayette, Indiana. He has more than 25 years of management experience in agricultural organizations.
The Soy 2020 Vision is that the U.S. soybean industry will be the global marketplace leader. The Soy 2020 process established strategies to optimize the U.S. soybean value chain regardless of what the future world unfolds. To fully realize the Vision, the U.S. soybean value-chain (producers and producer associations, input and output channels, and government entities) must fully embrace the vision and strategies, and personalize them as appropriate for implementation.
The Soy 2020 Vision will be realized through the following:
Strive for economic sustainability and a global leadership position through the innovation, adoption and delivery of soy production and trait technologies.
Create a wide variety of output choices for food, feed, fuel and other outputs, while increasing demand for soy by promoting benefits, such as, higher levels of health and nutrition.
Take an environmentally responsible leadership role to ensure a secure, safe, sustainable and abundant global food supply to feed a hungry world.
Enable success of all soybean sectors and prepare to work in a coordinated leadership capacity through any situation the future may hold for U.S. soy.
Where: Sheraton Hotel – Westport, 191 West Port Plaza Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146
Our October meeting was held today and the speaker was John Becherer, Chief Executive Officer, United Soybean Board.
