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2007 Concurrent Sessions
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| Weed, Insect, and Disease Updates for 2008 | |
| Label changes, new chemistry, emerging pests, and pest management strategies to help you stay current. Speakers: Wayne Bailey, Kevin Bradley, and Laura Sweets, University of Missouri |
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| Growing Wheat Profitably |
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| From planting to harvest, make the right decisions for profitable wheat. Speaker: Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin |
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| Profitable Wheat: Nutrient and Insect Management | |
| What do you need to do to promote and protect wheat yield potential? Speakers: Peter Scharf and Wayne Bailey, University of Missouri |
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| Growing Corn After Corn: Agronomy and Pests | |
| With increasing corn acres, corn after corn will become more common in Missouri. What management changes might be needed? Speakers: Bill Wiebold, Laura Sweets, and Wayne Bailey, University of Missouri |
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| Biofuels and Nutrients | |
| Corn after corn, increased corn acres, and possible future developments in the biofuels industry: how will they change fertilizer management and supply chain logistics? Speakers: Peter Scharf, University of Missouri, and Paul Tracy, MFA |
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| BMP Challenge: A Safety Net for Implementing Nutrient Management and Conservation Tillage | |
| A significant obstacle to producer adoption of nutrient management and reduced tillage is risk of reduced yield and income. This program removes risk as a barrier when trying new Best Management Practices (BMPs) in corn. Speaker: Thomas Green, IPM Institute |
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| Can Planting Date Help Mitigate Drought Stress? | |
| Discuss the effects of corn and soybean plantings on timing of critical stages of development; use long-term, short-term and near-term predictions of weather data to determine implications of planting date on drought stress. Speakers: Bill Wiebold and Pat Guinan, University of Missouri |
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| Production Strategies for a Wheat/Soybean Double-cropped System | |
| Management practices of wheat and soybean to maximize profitability of double-cropping. Speakers: Shawn Conley, University of Wisconsin and Bill Wiebold, University of Missouri |
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| Putting Manure Value in Perspective | |
| What is the fertilizer value of manure from a hog barn? How do I determine nitrogen value for manure? What is the difference between human waste treatment and animal manure? Speaker: John Lory, University of Missouri |
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| Carbon Trading and Agriculture | |
| Carbon trading is a growing business at the global scale. What are the possible implications for U.S. agriculture? Speaker: Chad Martin, AgraGate |
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| Risk Management with Crop Insurance | |
| Missouri producers encountered a yield devastating freeze, flooding that forced replanting and drought that reduced yields – all in a single season. This session will give an historical perspective of the payout from crop insurance and then discuss how crop insurance offers protection from weather, pest and price risk. Speaker: Ray Massey, University of Missouri |
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| Weed Management Systems for Corn and Soybean Production: Recommendations Based on MU Research | |
| Weed control is one of the largest variable costs incurred by U.S. farmers. This session will focus on weed management systems based on MU Weed Science research and on economics. Speaker: Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri |
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| How Forage-Livestock Operations in Missouri can Benefit from Higher Feed Prices | |
| Higher crop commodity (feed) prices have changed the pricing structure of feeder cattle. This provides an opportunity for cow-calf operations in Missouri to profitably retain feeder calves through the backgrounding phase. How can we use this shift in pricing to make beef operations in Missouri more profitable? Speaker: Rob Kallenbach, University of Missouri |
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| Compaction: Where, How Bad, and What to Do? | |
| Compaction caused by the interaction of heavy machinery and poor soil conditions degrades soils and can reduce yields. This session discusses the conditions that favor compaction, relates compaction to yield loss, presents new sensor technology for measuring and mapping compaction, and suggests how this information could be used for compaction management. Speaker: Ken Sudduth, USDA-ARS |
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| New Developments in Precision Agriculture | |
| This session will cover two topics: 1) the rapid expansion of RTK global positioning systems and their uses, and 2) communication between precision agriculture devices, with an emphasis on changes and compatibility issues. Speakers: Rick Greene, MFA, and Kent Shannon, University of Missouri |
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