Crop advisers looking for information beyond that offered at traditional winter crop meetings are the intended audience for the University of Minnesota and North Dakota State University Extension’s Advanced Crop Advisers Workshop Jan. 24-25 at the Fargo Holiday Inn.
“This workshop is designed to provide in-depth discussion on selected topics to help agricultural professionals enhance their crop production recommendations for farmers,” says Greg Endres, NDSU Extension cropping systems specialist and workshop co-chair. “Land-grant university crop experts from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin will be interacting with workshop participants regarding a dozen crop production topics.”
Registration begins at 10:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 24 with the program scheduled from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Educational sessions include:
- How world affairs and weather affect grain prices in the Northern Plains
- Can stress tolerance in corn and soybean keep yields moving up?
- The AI Crop Adviser
- Making cents of soil health
- Asymbiotic N-fixing organisms – Natural populations and commercial products: What you should know and what questions to ask