Learning Centers are neutral, content-rich educational sessions designed to address a wide range of current industry issues, provide unique perspectives, offer creative solutions and strategies, and challenge attendees to think differently about their businesses. 

Learning Centers are not intended for the sponsoring company to sell or promote their products or services. They should not be perceived by the attendees as a sales pitch or commercial. If you have a proposal that is commercial in nature, please consider sponsoring a What’s New Session or Mini What’s New Session instead.

Learning Centers also provide attendees the opportunity to receive CEUs toward the American Society of Agronomy’s Certified Crop Adviser program, for which Commodity Classic will apply for each qualifying Learning Center. 

CEU Categories

Proposals will be reviewed by the Commodity Classic Affiliates Council in July 2024 for approval and placement in the 2025 education schedule. Session times and dates will be assigned by Commodity Classic.

Learning Center sponsors are recognized as Bronze Level sponsors! As a Bronze Level sponsor, your company will be recognized throughout the entire show experience everywhere we thank and acknowledge our sponsors. Your company will stay top-of mind with the industry's top producers through this additional recognition.

Sponsorship Fee: $16,000

(Sponsor responsible for speaker expenses: travel, housing, meals, etc.)

The Opening Learning Center Session is a unique opportunity for 2025. Scheduled for midday on Sunday, March 2, the Opening Learning Center Session follows the worship service and pancake brunch. It will be the first educational session of the conference and kicks off an afternoon of educational sessions immediately after, and followed by trade show open time. It is not scheduled against other educational sessions or trade show open hours. 

Commodity Classic’s vision for this special session is one that features a topic or speaker that appeals to the entire Classic audience. You might consider proposing a professional speaker(s) who is dynamic, inspirational, a futurist, and/or an expert in their chosen field. Something to start our week off with energy, ideas, and knowledge. This session, like all Learning Centers, should not be product-focused. 

Number Available: 1
When: Sunday, March 2, 11:30 a.m.
Length: 60 minutes
 

Sponsorship Fee: $16,000

(Sponsorship fee includes coffee and breakfast pastries offered at the session. Sponsor responsible for speaker expenses: travel, housing, meals, etc.)

The Early Riser Learning Center Session is not scheduled against the trade show or other educational sessions. Subject matter for this session should be of high interest to all attendees. Popular topics include marketing, production, state of the industry, new trends in agriculture, and/or feature well-known speakers or farmers. This session, like all Learning Centers, should not be product-focused.

Number Available: 1 

When: Monday, March 3, 7:00 a.m.  

Length: 60 minutes

Sponsorship Fee: $8,000

(Sponsor responsible for speaker expenses: travel, housing, meals, etc.)

Number Available: up to 17 

When: Monday, March 3 (afternoon) and Tuesday, March 4 (morning & afternoon)

Length: 45 and 60 minutes

Schedule Notes: These Learning Centers are scheduled concurrently (2 or 3 per time slot) and during trade show hours. The 45-minute Learning Centers will be held on Monday and Tuesday. The 60-minute Learning Centers will be held on Tuesday. Session times and dates will be assigned by Commodity Classic.

Submission Deadline is June 26, 2024.

Learning Centers are not intended for the sponsoring company to sell or promote their products or services. They should not be perceived by the attendees as a sales pitch or commercial. If you have a proposal that is commercial in nature, please consider sponsoring a What’s New Session or Mini What’s New Session instead.

All topics are welcome. The Commodity Classic Affiliates Council, who will choose the sessions to be presented in Denver, has also asked for proposals on the following topics:

• Farm Finances (farm credit/financing, succession planning lawyer, farm lease agreements, how to reduce farm expenses)
• HR issues on the farm (improving communications, workforce retention, investing in younger generation)
• Soil Nutrition and Biologicals
• Farmer Mental Health
• Carbon Intensity Scoring
• FBI Session
• Climate Change (what is coming and how do we adapt on the farm?)

Preference will be given to sessions that include panels with:

• Well-known names in ag 
• Farmers 
• Diversity (gender, ethnicity, age, etc.)

Only complete proposals, including CEU category and billing information, will be considered.

Sponsors are welcome to submit more than one session. If doing so, please let Commodity Classic staff know which session is most important to you.

An invoice will be sent upon notification of selection.

Required Session Details (+ click to expand)

• Session published in Commodity Classic event materials including onsite program booklet, mobile app, and website (deadlines must be met to be included) 
• Recognition of your company as a sponsor of your session in Commodity Classic materials including onsite program booklet, mobile app, and website 
• Professional video recording of your session for your company’s use (signed recording waiver required) 
• Meeting room entrance sign with sponsoring company's name and session title 
• Meeting room with head table on riser and audience seating 
• Standard audio-visual in each room 
• Complimentary registration for your Learning Center session speakers 
• Attendee feedback from your session evaluations 
• Aggregate demographics of farmer-attendees at your session 
• Sponsorship qualifies the sponsoring company as a Bronze Level sponsor, which includes the opportunity to host a press conference. Additional fee and deadline applies for press conference.

For a $500 fee (in addition to the applicable sponsorship fee), Commodity Classic will highlight your Learning Center Session on its social media platforms prior to the 2025 show as follows: 

• One Facebook non-exclusive post prior to the 2025 Commodity Classic
• One X non-exclusive post prior to the 2025 Commodity Classic

Currently Commodity Classic social media platforms have the following audiences (as of May 2024):

• Facebook Follows: 8.7K / Likes: 7.6K
• X Followers: 10.7K

Content for this social media promotion will be gleaned from the information provided in your proposals plus any updates Commodity Classic receives prior to December 2024.

Mini What’s New Sessions are a unique opportunity for exhibiting companies to highlight their newest, most innovative product or service to Commodity Classic attendees. A series of back-to-back, 5-minute presentations in a fast-paced 90-minute window, this session is an opportunity for you to give a brief introduction to your key innovations and invite attendees to visit your exhibit on the Trade Show floor.

Mini What’s News will be presented on the Main Stage in the Trade Show.

When: Monday, March 3 (morning)

Sponsorship Fee: $2,400

In December, Commodity Classic will provide a PowerPoint template to all chosen sponsors. Sponsors should create their 5-6 slide deck using this template. The completed deck should be emailed back to Commodity Classic by February 2025. Commodity Classic will have all sponsors’ slides ready for the session – speakers need only bring themselves and any notes they need to the session.

Submission Deadline is October 23, 2024.

Product or service to be showcased as a 2025 Mini What’s New Session may not have been placed on the market earlier than the previous Commodity Classic (March 2, 2024). You may submit individual proposals for as many products or services that qualify.

Please forward product/service information even if regulatory approval is pending. In terms of crop protection products, a totally new compound of new and pre-existing chemistry is acceptable. 

Once a product is presented as a What’s New or Mini What’s New session, it will no longer be eligible for presentation in these sessions in future years.

Mini What’s New proposals are evaluated objectively by the Commodity Classic Affiliates Council with emphasis on the following criteria (listed in order of significance):

• Is it new since the last Commodity Classic? Preference is given to products and services to be introduced at 2025 Commodity Classic.
• Uniqueness of product/service
• Value of product/service to agriculture
• Appeal of product/service to Commodity Classic audience

Highlight how the presentation will help an attendee solve a problem, overcome a challenge or launch a new initiative, and how what they will learn will directly impact their work/life.

Please complete a separate application for each proposal. 

We will not consider incomplete submissions.

An invoice will be sent upon notification of selection.

Submission Deadline is October 23, 2024.

• Session title
• Sponsoring company’s name*

* Companies recognized as the sponsor must be exhibitors in the 2025 trade show. The education sponsor name must match the exhibitor name.

• Session title/sponsor published in Commodity Classic event materials including on-site program booklet, mobile app, and website (deadlines must be met to be included)
• Podium on riser and audience seating
• Standard audio-visual
• Moderator to introduce your presenter

What’s New sessions are an opportunity to showcase your company’s new products or services in a 30-minute session that allows you to go into details and engage in conversations with farmer-attendees. Your session can feature company representatives, experts and/or customers.

When: Sunday, March 2 (afternoon) & Monday, March 3 (morning)

What’s New sessions are held in classrooms concurrent with other What’s New sessions on Sunday and concurrent with other What’s New sessions and Trade Show hours on Monday, giving attendees plenty of time to visit your booth for more information.

Sponsorship Fee: $10,000

Submission Deadline is October 23, 2024.

Product or service to be showcased as a 2025 What’s New Session may not have been placed on the market earlier than the previous Commodity Classic (March 2, 2024). You may submit individual proposals for as many products or services that qualify.

Please forward product/service information even if regulatory approval is pending. In terms of crop protection products, a totally new compound of new and pre-existing chemistry is acceptable. 

Once a product is presented as a What’s New or Mini What’s New session, it will no longer be eligible for presentation in these sessions in future years.

What’s New proposals are evaluated objectively by the Commodity Classic Affiliates Council with emphasis on the following criteria (listed in order of significance):

• Is it new since the last Commodity Classic? Preference is given to products and services to be introduced at 2025 Commodity Classic.
• Uniqueness of product/service
• Value of product/service to agriculture
• Appeal of product/service to Commodity Classic audience
• Are there plans to include a farmer/farmer panel in the session?

Highlight how the presentation will help an attendee solve a problem, overcome a challenge or launch a new initiative, and how what they will learn will directly impact their work/life.

Please complete a separate application for each proposal. In a situation where committee members may need to choose between multiple sessions from the same sponsor, please indicate the session that is most important to you.

We will not consider incomplete submissions.

An invoice will be sent upon notification of selection.

Required Session Details (+ click to expand)

• Session published in Commodity Classic show event materials including onsite program booklet, mobile app, and website (deadlines must be met to be included) 
• Commodity Classic will be doing extra promotions around What’s New sessions scheduled on Sunday, so farmers know to come early to the center to collect their badge and attend these sessions before the trade show opens that day
• Recognition of your company as a sponsor of your session in Commodity Classic materials including on-site program booklet, mobile app, and website 
• Professional video recording of your session for your company’s use (signed recording waiver required) 
• Meeting room entrance sign with sponsoring company's name and session title 
• Meeting room with head table on riser and audience seating 
• Standard audio-visual in each room 
• Attendee feedback from your session evaluations 
• Aggregate demographics of farmer-attendees at your session 
• You may collect attendee leads at your session
• What’s New sponsors are recognized as Bronze Level sponsors! As a Bronze Level sponsor, your company will be recognized throughout the entire show experience everywhere we thank and acknowledge our sponsors. Your company will stay top-of mind with the industry's top producers through this additional recognition.
• As a Bronze Level Sponsor, sponsors receive the opportunity to host a press conference. Additional fee and deadline applies.

For a $500 fee (in addition to the applicable sponsorship fee), Commodity Classic will highlight your What’s New Session on its social media platforms prior to the 2025 show as follows: 

• One Facebook non-exclusive post prior to the 2025 Commodity Classic 
• One X non-exclusive post prior to the 2025 Commodity Classic 

Currently Commodity Classic social media platforms have the following audiences (as of May 2024): 

• Facebook Follows: 8.7K / Likes: 7.6K  
• X Followers: 10.7K 

Content for this social media promotion will be gleaned from the information provided in your proposals plus any updates Commodity Classic receives prior to December 2024.