Events Hosted by the Haupert Institute

The Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies is delighted to host our 10th Annual Harvest Dinner Celebration on December 4th, 2025 featuring Mr. Clinton Griffiths as our keynote speaker. The doors open at 5:30 pm for a silent auction benefiting student ag-related organizations with dinner following at 6:00 pm. Register today at www.huntington.edu/harvest. 

Mr. Griffiths serves as the Anchor and Editorial Director fo AgDay Television and was recently named the 12th Editor of Farm Journal Magazine. AgDay is the nation's longest running daily syndicated news program about agriculture and rural America...while Farm Journal was founded 145 years ago and is the nation's oldest farming magazine. Together Clinton has oversight for two of the most iconic agricultural brands in the industry. 

Clinton has lifelong connections in agriculture, he comes form a deeply rooted agriculturally diverse family, tracing his farming and ranching roots in the U.S. back more than 13 generations. He grew up in Deming, New Mexico and his family runs his great grandparents ranch in Tucumcair. Glinton grew up showing cattle and was actively involved in FFA and 4H. 

Clinton now lives on a farm in Northern Indiana with his wife, MaryBeth, and 3 young children. In 2019 Clinton was named the Farm Broadcaster of the Year by the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. 

This event is sponsored by Farm Credit Mid-America and Williamson Crop Insurance.

If you have any questions regarding any of our events, please contact Nate Perry, Managing Director of the Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies, at nperry@huntington.edu.

The Haupert Institute for Agriculture Studies is please to host the 11th Annual FFA Leadership Summit. The event takes place Wednesday, January 28th, starting at 10:00 a.m. with optional campus tours starting at 9:00 a.m.

This annual event brings FFA officers and leaders from around the Midwest together for a one-day leadership summit. 

More information to come. 

The Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies will once again host the annual National Ag Week Breakfast. This annual event takes place on Thursday, March 20, 2025 in the upper level of the Habecker Dining Commons. The event begins at 7:45 am and includes a breakfast buffet.  RSVP today at www.huntington.edu/AgWeek. This year's event sponsors include: Farm Credit Mid-America, Keystone Cooperative, Inc. and Williamson Crop Insurance.

About our speaker:

Greg Peterson, known as Machinery Pete, has built a network of 1,100 auction firms, 600 ag lenders, 2,000 implement dealers and hundreds of thousands of farmers worldwide. Since 1989, Machinery Pete has compiled more than 1.5 million auction prices on all types of used farm and construction equipment sold throughout North America. MachineryPete.com is the fastest growing web site marketplace for buyers and sellers of used equipment with 6M+ page views/mo. and 130,000 equipment listings for sale for sale from dealers, auction firms and private farmer sellers. Peterson is the multimedia expert on used equipment values for Farm Journal, including print and broadcast. He appears every Monday on AgriTalk radio and AgDay TV. In 2013, Machinery Pete launched a weekly 30-minute Machinery Pete TV show on RFD-TV. Now in its twelfth season, Machinery Pete TV has a new show airing every Saturday at 12:30 p.m. CST and repeats each Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. CST on RFD-TV as well as more than 50+ affiliate TV stations across the country. Machinery Pete has more than 400,000 social media followers across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. His YouTube videos were watched more than 66M minutes the past 2 years! A widely sought-out speaker, Peterson regularly presents to farmer, dealer, auctioneer, and investor audiences

If you have any questions regarding future events, please contact Nate Perry, Managing Director of the Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies, at nperry@huntington.edu.

The Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies is excited to be a part of this outstanding swine show. HU will host the Showmanship Classic in conjunction with Whitley and Allen Counties (Indiana). The show takes place at the Whitley County Fairgrounds and has two rings both Saturday May 27th and Sunday May 28th. The Showmanship Classic will take place on Sunday the 28th in the morning before the Whitley County Memorial Day Classic begins. Register at Showman.app ($35/head or $60/head for both shows)
*This is a BTRJLA Sanctioned Show and IJSC Rules Apply. 

Judges include:

Mark Hoge & Miles Toenyes (Saturday)
Blake Goss & Kyndal Reitzenstein (Sunday)

In additional to the two shows, the following activities are planned:

• Pork Chop Dinner (Saturday evening)
• Corn Hole Tournament
• Silent Auctions
• Morning Church Service (Sunday)

If you have any questions regarding any of our events, please contact Nate Perry, Managing Director of the Haupert Institute for Agricultural Studies, at nperry@huntington.edu.