Theme: "Conserving Soil Moisture for Profitable Production"

Wednesday, February 4th

8:30 a.m. Registration/Coffee/View Exhibits

9:25 a.m. President’s Welcome and Comments

Cal Hoff, Richardton, ND

 

General Session

9:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker

"The Family Farm – Why Are We Here?"

Dr. Tom Fricke, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

10:30 a.m. "GPS Technology – What’s New?"

Dugan Petersen, TeeJet Mid-Tech, Hartford, SD

11:15 a.m. "Zone Farming With GPS – For Prescription

Applications"

Neil Power, Total Crop Farming Systems, Langdon, ND

 

12:00 p.m. Lunch/View Exhibits

 

Concurrent Session - Room A - "Livestock in the Cropping

System"

1:30 p.m. "Extending the Grazing Season"

Paul McCaughey, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,

Brandon, MB

Don Tanaka, USDA – Ag. Research Service,

Mandan, ND

2:30 p.m. Farmer Panel – "Alternative Feed Sources"

Grazing Corn - Clayton Robins, Rivers, MB

Swath grazing - Trevor Atchison, Pipestone, MB

Feeding Chaff - Don Armitage, Miniota, MB

Concurrent Session - Room B – "Getting Grounded in Zero Till"

1:30 p.m. "Basic Principles of Zero Till Production"

Terry Gregoire, NDSU, Devil’s Lake, ND

"How I Manage My Chaff and Straw"

Darwin Mayer, Mott, ND

"Seed and Fertilizer Placement"

Nelson Moorehead, Hamiota, MB

2:30 p.m. Farmer Panel – "Fertilizer/Seeding Methods and

Equipment"

Side Banding - Bill Kuehn, Turtle Lake, ND

Mid-row Banding - Trevor Cowieson, Souris, MB

Broadcast - Ron Bell, Birtle, MB

Strip Tillage - Perry Anderson, Wyndmere, ND

 

3:30 p.m. Coffee Break/View Exhibits

 

Concurrent Session - Room A - "Livestock in the Cropping

System"

4:00 p.m. Panel - "Alfalfa in the Cropping System"

Grazing - Candice Manshreck, Manitoba Ag. & Food,

Deloraine, MB

Round Up Ready Alfalfa - Dwain Meyer, NDSU,

Fargo, ND

Saline Tolerant Alfalfa - Keith Rekow, Dairyland Seeds,

Langford, ND

 

Concurrent Session – Room B - "Getting Grounded in Zero Till"

4:00 p.m. "Zero Till Soybeans"

Greg Endres, NDSU, Carrington, ND

4:30 p.m. "Winter Wheat Production"

Blake Vander Vorst, Ducks Unlimited, Bismarck, ND

 

5:00 p.m. Annual General Meeting

7:00 p.m. Rap Sessions

A. Rotations – Alan Ness, Bismarck, ND

B. Intensive Cropping – Duane Poynter, Sawyer, ND

C. Livestock/Cropping Systems – Jerry Blotter,

Coleharbor, ND

8:00 p.m. Rap Sessions

A. Fertility – Greg Endres, Carrington, ND

B. GPS Technology - Neil Power, Langdon, ND

C. Weeds/Disease/Insects – Derwyn Hammond,

Portage, MB

 

 

Thursday, February 5th

 

8:30 a.m. "Conservation Security Program"

Alan Ness, USDA – Natural Resource Cons. Service,

Bismarck, ND

 

9:00 a.m. Coffee Break/View Exhibits

 

Concurrent Session – Room A – "Zero Till and Global Warming"

9:30 a.m. "How Does Zero Till Effect Greenhouse Gases in our Environment?"

Don Reicosky, USDA – Ag. Research Service,

Morris, MN

10:15 a.m. "Is Your Organic Matter for Sale?"

John Bennett, Biggar, SK

 

 

Concurrent Session – Room B - "Digging Deeper – Managing Your

Nitrogen"

9:30 a.m. "How Much Nitrogen is Your Soil Producing?"

Dave Franzen, NDSU, Fargo, ND

10:15 a.m. "Split Application of Nitrogen on Canola and Wheat"

John Lukach, NDSU, Langdon, ND

 

11:00 a.m. Coffee Break/View Exhibits

 

11:30 a.m. Awards Luncheon

 

General Session

1:00 p.m. "Crop Rotation Intensity and Diversity"

Dwayne Beck, Dakota Lakes Research Farm, Pierre, SD

2:00 p.m. Farmer Panel – "Managing Diverse Crop Rotations"

Equipment for Corn and Soybeans – Leo Vojta,

Mobridge, SD

Pulse Crops in the Rotation – Robert Ferebee,

Halliday, ND

Corn Production – Rick Beiber, Trail City, SD

3:00 p.m. Wrap-up Comments

President Cal Hoff, Richardton, ND