The 32nd annual Manitoba-North Dakota Zero-tillage Workshop is designed to help producers meet the “triple bottom line” of sustainable production agriculture and help position producers to take advantage of the changes that will occur during the next few years. The theme for this year’s workshop is “Changing With the Times.”
The workshop is sponsored by the Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Farmers Association and will be held in Minot on Jan. 11-13, 2010.
Along with helping producers move no-till to the next level, consumer concerns also will be discussed.
“Consumers are looking for high-quality food and are interested in the manner in which their food is produced,” says Roger Ashley, North Dakota State University Dickinson Research Extension Center cropping specialist. “This workshop will provide producers with ideas for improving productivity and decreasing costs while providing high-quality food produced in a sustainable manner.”
One keynote speaker is Joao Carlos de Moreaes Sa. He is a professor in the Department of Soil Science at the State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil. He has studied long-term changes in soil organic matter as a result of climate and management differences and its effect on productivity in tropical, subtropical and temperate zones. He also has studied the impact of no-till cropping systems intensification and nutrient cycling.
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