By Liz Stahl, Extension Educator – Crops, Anthony Hanson, Extension Educator – Integrated Pest Management, and Phyllis Bongard, Content Development and Communications Specialist
Pull up a chair and join in or bring the conversation with you as you go about your day. Whatever works best for you, join us this winter to discuss some of the key issues and questions around commodity crop production facing Minnesota farmers today through the “Strategic Farming: Let’s Talk Crops” webinar series. This live, online program will provide up-to-date, research-based information to help optimize your crop management strategies for 2024. Sessions will be held over Zoom, which can be accessed via your computer, phone, or other mobile device, and will run from 9:00 to 10:00 am Wednesdays, January 10 through March 27, 2024.
Sessions will be very informal and open to all interested. Each session will start with a brief presentation by the discussion leaders for the day, followed by discussion framed around farmer/participant questions on the topic.
● January 10: Grain prices and marketing strategies given current geopolitics & soybean crush capacity Frayne Olson, Crops economist/Marketing specialist, North Dakota State University ● January 17: Join us LIVE at the MN Ag Expo (no Zoom session today) ● January 24: Big Data & Corn Genomics - what does it all mean for you? Candice Hirsch, Corn genomics professor & Jeff Coulter, Extension corn agronomist ●January 31: Pushing soybean maturity to the max Seth Naeve, Extension soybean agronomist ● February 7: Making herbicides work better PART 1: Making choices and adjustments to ensure a successful application. Tom Peters, Extension sugar beet agronomist ● February 14: Making herbicides work better PART 2: Demystifying adjuvants Joe Ikley, Assistant Professor/Extension Weed Specialist, North Dakota State University & Greg Dahl, Adjuvant development advisor, WinField ● February 21: What pays for soybean insect management? Bob Koch, Extension soybean entomologist ● February 28: Thirsty cover crops - do they impact our cash crops? Anna Cates, Anna Cates, State soil health specialist & Dan Smith, Nutrient and pest management outreach specialist, University of Wisconsin Madison ● March 6: Fertilizer - How to get your best ROI Dan Kaiser, Extension nutrient management specialist & Jeff Vetsch, Researcher at UMN Southern Research & Outreach Center ● March 13: Are we smarter than the average European corn borer and corn rootworm? Fei Yang, Extension corn entomologist ● March 20: Efficacy matters: Fungicides for managing specific corn and soybean diseases Kiersten Wise, Professor/ Extension plant pathologist, University of Kentucky ● March 27: Look Out! An Update on Emerging Soybean and Corn Diseases Dean Malvick, UMN professor and Extension specialist: field crops plant pathology For more details and to register, go to https://z.umn.edu/ strategic-farming. There is no charge to participate, thanks to generous sponsorship from the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council. Not able to attend a day? No problem. Sessions will be recorded and posted for viewing later at your convenience.
We hope you will take this opportunity to join with U of MN Extension in discussing crop topics at our “Strategic Farming: Let’s Talk Crops!” program in 2024!
