In this Issue:

Greetings!   

 It's almost time for the arrival of harvest (or crop insurance adjusters) in the upper Midwest! 

But first...

• There's still time to register for the FBS User Conference, August 29-30th in Moline, Illinois. 
• Our free weekly webinar moves to 1:00 pm in September.  The first session will even help you get ready for harvest. 
• The Q&A of the Month provides tips for speeding up your support experience.   
• Are you using your iPad or Android tablet to actually manage your farm, not just play "Angry Birds?" Then join the discussion in the Farm Management Software Blog . 

                                                                                      SDG

Gain compentency and control through replication,integration and innovation.

Thanks to each of you who have registered early for the 2012 User Conference, August 29th and 30th in Moline, Illinois.  We've already set a record and registrations are still coming in. 

 Here's the final schedule for all the presentations: 

 Wednesday, August 29 General Sessions

• What's New with FBS Versions 10.2 and 8.13. 
• Managing Your Farm's Critical Control Points. 
• New User/Experience User Forum.  
• Crop and Livestock Margin Strategies by David Ward,CIH and Moe Russell, Russell Consulting Group. 
• Applying Best Practices from Manufacturing to Farm Information Management by Eric Jackson and Jack Makowski, Conservis.
   Crop Cost of Production Benchmarks by Moe Russell,Russell Consulting Group and John McNutt, Latta, Harris, Hanon & Penningroth LLP.

 Thursday, August 30 Concurrent Breakout Sessions 

 Track I

• Geting Started with FBS.
• Basic Accounting.
• "Dirt-Simple" Crop Records.
• Optimizing Your AgCompass Hosted Experience.
• Commodity & Ingredient Hedging Demonstration and Q&A.
• Conservis Demonstration and Q&A.  
• Customizing Your Financial Statements and Cost Analysis.
• Professional Farm Management Firm Issues.
• Payroll/Hired Labor Tracking Issues.

Track II

• Complex/Diversified Operations Case Studies.
• Managerial Accounting Issues.
• Hedge Accounting.
• Pork Cost Benchmarks.
• Budgets and Monitoring.
• New Modules: Parts, Cash Flows, Ratios.
• Report Automation and Dashboards.

For more information contact FBS at sales@fbssystems.com, call800-437-7638/Ext 1 or go to the User Conference website.  

Also note that that you can select sessions from either concurrent track, but they will not repeat so we encourage you to bring two or more people along so you won't miss any important tips or best practices in areas of your interest. 

Convert your data into sound decisions at the FBS 2012 User Conference.

• Schedule at a glance:
• August 29
• Registration 9:00 am
• General session 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
• Mississippi Dinner Cruise 6:00 pm
• August 30
• Early bird brainstorming 7:30 am
• Break-out sessions 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
•  Costs:
• Full session
• $250 first person
• $150 for each additional person
• One day only
• $150 first person
• $100 for each additional person
• 50% discount if paid by Friday, August 10th
• Extra dinner cruise ticket:  $47.95
   
• For hotel reservations:  Call the Stoney Creek Inn (309.743.0101) directly and request the FBS room block.
   
• To download a free brochure, specify preferred topics orregister for the conference click here or call 800.437.7638 / extension 1.

Don't miss the Mississippi dinner cruise!

September "One O'clock Webinars"

 We've moved our free weekly webinars to 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time.