BEYOND the Harvest 2025

The nation’s leading agriculture continuing professional education (CPE) event

When:

October 16-17, 2025

Where:

Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza – location details coming soon

Who should attend:

This event is designed for professionals who serve the agriculture industry, including:

  • CPAs and tax professionals specializing in serving agribusiness clients or working in-house for large farming operations
  • Financial advisors and planners working with agricultural operations
  • Ag lenders and consultants looking to deepen their understanding of new policy impacts
  • Estate and succession planning experts navigating generational farm transitions

NASBA sponsored CPE credits available.

What:

The agriculture industry is in the middle of a major transition—one that’s reshaping how farms operate and how their advisors must guide them.

With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), farm operations now have access to expanded bonus depreciation, updated pass-through deductions and changes to long-standing USDA programs like Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC). These updates open the door for fresh planning strategies and more tailored guidance.

That’s why we’re gathering for BEYOND the Harvest 2025—two days dedicated to helping accountants and ag-focused advisors adapt, anticipate and lead. This isn’t about sitting through theory-heavy lectures. It’s about getting the practical knowledge and real-world strategies you can put to work the moment you get back to your desk.

Here’s what’s on the table:

  • Farm-Specific Tax Provisions – How permanent estate tax exemptions and enhanced depreciation rules affect decision-making for farm clients and how to position those changes as an advantage.
  • Policy Impacts on Financial Planning – What $66B in new agricultural investments means for planning, from disaster relief to crop insurance subsidies and how these tools can stabilize operations in unpredictable markets.
  • Real-World Applications – Firsthand stories from professionals who’ve helped clients restructure entities, time equipment purchases and manage multi-entity operations for better tax and operational efficiency.
  • Technology & Advisory Services – How shifting from reactive compliance work to proactive advisory relationships can change the way you serve clients in a sector that’s always riding the edge of volatility.

Whether you work with a family-owned farm that’s been passed down for generations or a large-scale operation covering tens of thousands of acres, this event will help you move past compliance into true partnership—the kind that lasts through market swings, policy changes and harvest cycles.

Agenda

Thursday, October 16 | Day One

8:00 AM: Breakfast

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM: The Future of Agriculture

Presenter: Katie Sawyer, State Director, office of U.S. Senator Roger Marshall 

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Agricultural Business & Bankruptcies

Presenter: Darryl Myers, Director, BDO Alliance

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Cybersecurity in Agriculture

Presenter: Adams Brown Technology Specialists

12:00 PM1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Succession Planning

Presenter: BDO Alliance

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Break

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Agricultural Bankers Panel

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Q&A/Networking/Cocktail Hour

Friday, October 17 | Day Two

8:00 AM: Breakfast

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Farm CPA Report

Presenter: Paul Neiffer, Farm CPA, Speaker, Blogger & Writer

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Agricultural Law & Taxation

Presenter: Roger McEowen, Professor of Agricultural Law and Taxation at Washburn University School of Law

Thank you to our sponsors!