Past eventHeld October 15, 2026
South Dakota Land and Lending Conference 2026
A conference focused on real estate markets, credit conditions, and public policy.
Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
- Held
- October 15, 2026
- Venue
- Denny Sanford PREMIER Center
- Location
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Audience
- Researchers, real estate professionals, lenders, policymakers, and students
TL;DR
- South Dakota Land and Lending Conference 2026 took place on October 15, 2026, at Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
- The conference aimed to advance understanding of real estate markets and their relationship to credit conditions and public policy.
- Its stated audience included academic researchers, real estate professionals, lenders, policymakers, and students.
- The agenda was billed as including finance, land, agricultural credit, and breakout-session programming.
About
This conference looked at how real estate markets respond to credit conditions and to choices made by policymakers. The headline conversation, titled 'Finance: The Credit Cycle', was scheduled to feature Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC and to be hosted by Joe Santos, while Chuck Conner was scheduled to speak on agricultural credit. The conference was billed as bringing together researchers in academia, property professionals, lenders, public officials, and students, both in South Dakota and elsewhere, to strengthen their working relationships.
Who was in the room
Academic researchers
Academic researchers were part of the stated audience.
Real estate professionals
Real estate professionals were part of the stated audience.
Lenders
Lenders were part of the stated audience.
Policymakers
Policymakers were part of the stated audience.
Students
Students in South Dakota and beyond were part of the stated audience.
Featured speakers
13 listedAndrew Ross Sorkin
Co-anchor, CNBC Squawk Box · CNBC
Joe Santos
Director and Professor of Economics · SDSU Ness School of Management and Economics
Eric Lynch
Economist · National Association of Home Builders
Sean Turgeon
Partner · Rogers Appraisal Service Inc.
David Widmar
Co-founder and Managing Partner · Agricultural Economic Insights
Paul TenHaken
Former Mayor, moderator · City of Sioux Falls
Natasha Sarin
President and Co-founder / Professor · Yale Budget Lab / Yale Law School
Jake Mortenson
Economist · U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation
Chuck Conner
Former Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary · U.S. Department of Agriculture
Rick Dusek
Executive Vice President, Agriculture Retail, Distribution and Transportation · CHS Inc.
Hunter Roberts
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources · State of South Dakota
Steve Wittbecker
Executive Vice President, Farm Credit Banking Group · CoBank
Matthew Diersen
Professor of Economics, host · SDSU Ness School of Management and Economics
Partners on record
2 listedVenue & travel
Venue
Denny Sanford PREMIER CenterQuestions people ask
6 answeredIt took place on October 15, 2026.
The supplied event facts identify the audience categories but do not provide an attendance figure.
It was held at Denny Sanford PREMIER Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The stated audience included academic researchers, real estate professionals, lenders, policymakers, and students in South Dakota and beyond.
It suited agricultural lenders, appraisers and farmland-focused real estate professionals in the region, since the program paired a credit cycle conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin and a session from Chuck Conner on agricultural credit with speakers from CoBank, CHS Inc. and Agricultural Economic Insights. The one-day format, hosted by an SDSU economics program and drawing academic researchers, lenders and policymakers, favored people who wanted economic outlook and policy context; those looking for hands-on appraisal training, product demos or a large exhibit floor of prospects would have found less there.
A light jacket was sensible for a mid-autumn day in Sioux Falls.
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