Thursday, January 9, 2025
West Central Research, Ext. and Education Center, 402 West State Farm Rd, North Platte, NE
| Room 1 (Classroom- larger room) PEST MANAGEMENT & PESTICIDE SAFETY | Room 2 (Auditorium- smaller room) CROP, ECONOMICS, SOIL & WATER MANAGEMENT | |
8:00 – 8:50 am | Registration/Check-in | |
8:50 – 9:00 am | Welcome and Introduction | |
9:00 - 9:50 am | INSECT MANAGEMENT Research update on Western bean cutworm Current Tools and Challenges for Western Corn Rootworm Management Revisiting European Corn Borer Ecology and Management-Julie Peterson | CROPPING SYSTEMS Cropping System Update -Nicholas Cafaro la Menza |
10:00 – 10:50 am | DISEASE MANAGEMENT Wheat Disease Update – Stephen Wegulo Soybean Disease Update – Talon Mues Corn Disease Update – Talon Mues | SOIL HEALTH Assessing Soil Health: Guide and Color Chart for Soil Organic Matter Determination-Katja Koehler-Cole |
11:00 – 11:50 am | WEED MANAGEMENT Decision-Making for Post-Emergence Weed Control in Soybean in 2025-Milos Zaric | DIGITAL AG Spray Drone FAA Regulations-Guillermo Balboa DAWN: Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management Guillermo Balboa |
11:50 am – 12:30 pm | Lunch | |
12:30 – 1:40 pm | PESTICIDE & ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY Pesticides: Human Health, the Environment, and the Law – Frank Bright and Greg Puckett Tank contamination issues-Milos Zaric | AGRIBUSINESS MANAGEMENT Farm Bill Update: Prospects and Future Decisions-Jessica Groskopf Cost of Production, Trends and Outlook for 2025-Jessica Groskopf |
1:50 – 3:30 pm | WHAT’S NEW IN PLANT PROTECTION What’s New in Entomology: Wheat Stem Sawfly, Pillbugs, Dectes Stem Borer, andMore-Pin-ChuLai What’s New in Plant Pathology (Fungicides are for Fungi)-Stephen Wegulo What’s New in Weed Science? -Milos Zaric, Randy Lloyd | WATER MANAGEMENT & NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT Demonstration of Digital Nitrogen Calculator-Nicolas Cafaro La Menza In-Season Nitrogen Management for Irrigated Corn-Nicolas Cafaro La Menza Stretching Your Irrigation Dollar in 2025-Steve Melvin, Amy Timmerman |
3:30 pm | Survey & Pesticide License Recertification | Survey & CCA Credit |