Diversity, Direction & Dollars
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This program will feature speakers on topics affecting agriculture in the western Dakotas and eastern Monana. It will provide producers will ideas for improving productivity and decreasing costs while providing high-quality food produced in a sustainable manner. Producers should come away with good ideas they can apply to their farm during the next cropping season and ways to position their farming operation to take advantage of the changes occurring.
Agenda
8:15 a.m. Mountain time – Registration – $20/person covers morning coffee, noon lunch, breaks and materials
9:00 – Welcome – Russell Nemetz, Nemetz Communications, Inc., and Northern Ag. Network
9:05 – “Current Climate Impacts on Agriculture” – Adnan Akuz, PH.D., NDSU Professor of Climatological Practice
10:00 – “What Should We Do on Sodic Soils First: Tile or Apply the Amendments?”- Naeem Kalwar, NDSU Area Extension Specialist/Soil Health
11:00 – “Side-Dress Corn or Not to Side-Dress? That is the Question” – Dave Franzen, NDSU Extension Soil Science Specialist
12 – Noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. – “Managing Herbicide Resistance in Cereal Grain Systems” – Kirk Howatt, Associate Professor, NDSU Weed Science
2:15 – “Understanding Fickle Markets and How to Hedge Them in 2017” – Eugene Graner, Heartland Investor Services, Bismarck
3:15 Mountain time – Final Comments and Adjourn
