2024 - Dallas, TX

Online Registration for the 2024 NACAA AM/PIC will begin on April 1, 2024.  Early Bird rates will apply April 1 - May 15, 2024.  Beginning May 16, 2024 - all registration fees will increase $100/person.  Pre-registration will close June 28, 2024.  All registrations following June 28 will be held onsite at the 2024 AM/PIC in-person.   The AM/PIC is scheduled from July 14-18, 2024.

The 2024 AM/PIC will be held at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, TX.  All Active and Life Members are required to make a minimum of (1) day reservation at the Hilton Anatole in order to avoid a $250 Facilities Fee.  As an Active or Life Member - you will be asked during the AM/PIC registration process to enter in your Hilton Anatole confirmation number in order to proceed with registration.  Please have this information available PRIOR to beginning the actual AM/PIC registration process.  Since the meeting and rooms are all within one facility (Hilton Anatole) - you are asked to make your reservation directly with the hotel.  The link to make your Hotel Reservation is:  

Passkey: https://book.passkey.com/e/50739906

Group code: NAC

If you prefer to call the Hilton to make your reservation - please call:   1-800-955-4281 with the code NAC

The group rooms available at the NACAA group rate of $199/night will no longer be available after June 19, 2024.

More details are forthcoming for the 2024 AM/PIC - in the meantime if you have specific questions regarding various functions - please feel free to contact Committee Members listed below for more information.

Once you have your lodging reservation completed - you may proceed to the overall AM/PIC Registration which can be found here:

AM/PIC Registration

Nearby Restaurants for potential State's Night Out dinner

Tentative Schedule

109th Annual Meeting/Professional Improvement Conference

FRIDAY, JULY 12
8:00 am –        Pre-Conference Tours 
8:00 am – 5:00 pm     NACAA Board Meeting

SATURDAY, JULY 13
8:00 am –        Pre-Conference Tours 
8:00 am – 5:00 pm     NACAA Board Meeting
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm     Registration   
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm     Scholarship auction item drop off 
6:30 pm            Texas Meeting

SUNDAY, JULY 14
8:00 am – 7:00 pm    Registration   
8:00 am – 7:00 pm     Scholarship auction item drop off 
8:00 am – 10:00 am    NACAA Board Meeting (if needed)
8:00 am – 5:00 pm    Life Member/Spouses Hospitality 
9:00 am – 1:00 pm     Commercial Exhibits & NACAA Educational Exhibits, Poster Set Up 
9:00 am – 5:00 pm     Scholarship Selection Committee 
10:00 am – Noon     Regional Directors/Vice Directors Meeting
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm     Past National Board Luncheon
1:00 pm – 6:30 pm     Commercial Exhibit Trade Show and NACAA Poster Session Display
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm     State Officers Workshop
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm     Life and Spouse Member Welcome and Orientation
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm     First Lady’s Reception (by invitation)
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm     NACAA Educational Foundation Annual Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm     Break (Exhibit Hall)
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm     First Timer Orientation and Reception
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm     Welcome to Texas Dinner (Tickets Required)
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm     State President Rehearsal for Flag Ceremony
6:00 pm – 6:15 pm     National Leadership Rehearsal 
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm     Parents Orientation for Sons and Daughters Program 
7:00 pm – 8:45 pm     Opening Session
9:15 pm          Hospitality Rooms 

MONDAY, JULY 15
6:30 am – 5:00 pm     Life Member/Spouse Hospitality 
6:30 am – 7:45 am     Voting Delegates Breakfast  (invite only)
6:30 am – 7:45 am     Bayer CropScience Breakfast (Tickets Required)
7:30 am - 8:30 am    Life Member Breakfast  (Life Members Only)
8:00 am – noon         Scholarship auction item drop off 
8:00 am – 5:00 pm     Registration 
8:00 am – noon       NACAA Poster Judging
8:00 am – 10:15 am     General Session
9:00 am – 11:00 am     Life/Spouse Workshops? 
9:00 am – 4:30 pm     Commercial and NACAA Educational Exhibits Open 
10:15 am –10:30 am     Break
10:15 am – 10:45 am     Meet the Authors Poster Session 
10:30 am – 11:45 am     Life Members Business Meeting 
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Agriculture Awareness &  Appreciation Award Luncheon  (Tickets Required) 
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     First Time Attendee Luncheon (Tickets Required)
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Professional Improvement and Search for Excellence Luncheons: 4-H, Crop Production (Tickets Required)
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Merck Educational Luncheon Seminar (Tickets Required) 
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm     Spouse Luncheon (Spouses Only) 
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm     Committee Oral Presentations 
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm     Trade Talk Sponsor Sessions 
2:00 pm– 4:30 pm     Life/Spouse Activities (offsite)
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm     Life/Spouse Workshops 
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm     Break (Exhibit Hall)
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm     Regional Meetings and Candidate  Presentations
5:00 pm            Load buses for Ft Worth Stock Show and Rodeo/State Pictures 
6:30 pm            Welcome to Texas Dinner/Silent Auction and Live Auction Preview
7:30 pm            Live Auction
9:00 pm         Load buses for return to Hilton Anatole
9:30 pm            Hospitality Rooms 
10:00 pm        Texas Meeting 
 

TUESDAY, JULY 16
6:30 am – 5:00 pm    Life Member/Spouse Hospitality  (light breakfast items and snacks available)
7:00 am – 8:15 am    Achievement Award Recognition Breakfast (invite only)
7:00 am – 5:00 pm    Life/Spouse Activities (Tours) 
8:00 am – 2:00 pm    Registration
8:30 am – 11:30 am     Delegate Session
8:30 am – 11:30 am     Committee Oral Presentations:                                                                                                                                                                                  9:00 am – 3:30 pm    Commercial and NACAA Educational Exhibits Open 
9:00 am – 3:30 pm    NACAA Poster Session Open 
10:00 am – 10:30 am     Break 
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Communication/Poster Awards Luncheon (invite only)
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Search for Excellence Luncheons: Livestock Production, Young, Beginning or Small Farms/ Rancher,                                                                                                            Consumer or Commercia Horticulture, Farm and Ranch Business Management (Tickets Required)
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm     Committee Oral Presentations 
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm     Leadership Academy 
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm     Break
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm     Commercial Exhibits close 
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm     VIP/Donor Reception (invite only)
6:00 pm         State Night Out
10:00 pm        Texas Meeting

WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
6:30 am – 5:00 pm    Life Member/Spouse Hospitality
6:30 am – 8:00 am    National Committee Members: Breakfast Recognition of Retiring Chairs, Vice Chairs and Special Assignments (Tickets Required)
8:00 am –2:00 pm    Registration 
8:30 am – 10:00 am     NACAA Policy Meeting
8:30 am – 10:15 am     General Session
9:00 am – 1:30 pm    Life/Spouse Activities (Offsite) 
10:15 am – 10:30 am     Break
10:30 am – 11:45 am     Committee Oral Presentations
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Search For Excellence Luncheons:   Forestry/Natural Resources, Sustainable Agriculture  (Tickets Required)
11:45 am – 1:15 pm     Ag Pipeline Alliance Luncheon – (Tickets Required)
11:45 am – 3:00 pm     Administrative Leaders Luncheon and Program (for Extension Directors, Program Leaders with statewide responsibilities) 
                                       (Tickets Required)
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm     ARPAS Testing 
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm     Super Seminars
    #1 -     Reading the Farm (Sustainable Ag)
    #2 -    A Changing Way of Life: Ambiguous loss and farming Facilitator Training
    #3-     Dealing with Drought in Gardens and Landscapes
    #4 -    Introduction to Beekeeping for the Cooperative Extension Agent
    #5 -    How to Obtain Grant Funding
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm     Committee Oral Presentations 
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm    Life/Spouse Workshops
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm     Break
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm     Formal Picture Opportunity
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm     DSA & AA Recipients, Hall of Fame Recipients, NACAA Board Members, Region Directors, Past Officers, Special Assignments,                                                               Special Guests,  Council Chairs, Committee Chairs  and Vice Chairs Assemble for Banquet
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm     Annual Banquet (Tickets Required) 
9:15 pm – 11:00 pm     President’s Reception 
10:00 pm        Texas Meeting

THURSDAY, JULY 18
Tour Day (On-site registration closed) 
6:00 am – 8:45 am    Breakfast (Tickets Required)
6:00 am – 9:00 am    Assemble for Professional Improvement Tours
6:30 am – 6:00 pm    Professional Improvement Tours  (Tickets Required)
4:45 pm            Shuttle buses leave hotel for Texas Farewell Dinner for non-tour participants.
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm     Post Tour Dinner at State Fair of Texas
10:00 pm        Texas Meeting

FRIDAY, JULY 19
8:00 am – 5:00 pm    NACAA Board Meeting
 

Exhibitor Form

2024 AM/PIC HOST STATE (TX) COMMITTEE MEMBERS