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Key to CEU abbreviations
CM = crop management
NM = nutrient management
PD = professional development
PM = pest management
SW = soil & water management
NM = nutrient management
PD = professional development
PM = pest management
SW = soil & water management
Program
| Time | Room | Title |
|---|
| 10:00-11:30 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Pre-Conference Educational Session - Workforce Development Programs Available to Your Company |
| 10:00-11:30 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Talent Recruitment Initiative - Rebecca Deschane, Wis. Economic Development Corp. Wisconsin Fast Forward Program - Rita Atkinson, Wis. Dept. of Workforce Development Windows To Work Program - Anna Neal, Wis. Dept. of Corrections (1.5 PD) |
| 1:00-1:10 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Welcome and Introductions - Tom Bresner (WABA) & Matt Ruark (UW Madison) |
| 1:10-1:30 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Wisconsin FFA President - Amelia Hayden |
| 1:30-1:45 | Mendota Room 1-4 | WABA Awards Presentations |
| 1:45-2:45 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Keynote 1: Greg Peterson, Peterson Farm Brothers, Assaria, Kansas (1.0 PD) |
| 3:00-4:00 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Keynote 2: Nick Collins, Former Defensive Back & Green Bay Packer
Hall of Fame Member (1.0 PD) |
| 4:00-4:30 | Mendota Room 1-4 | Nick Collins - Meet & Greet, Sign Autographs |
| 4:15-5:00 | Mendota Room 1-4 | WABA Annual Membership Meeting |
| 5:00-5:30 | Mendota Room 1-4 | WABA Board Meeting to Elect Officers |
| Time | Room | Title |
|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Monona/Wingra | GIS Basics for Nutrient Management Planners (1.0 PD) |
| 9:00-11:00 | Monona/Wingra | SnapPlus for Everybody - Sue Porter (WI DATCP) and Laura Ward Good (UW Madison) - Must bring a laptop computer with SnapPlus installed. Download the most recent version from https://snapplus.wisc.edu/ (2.0 NM) |
| 11:00-12:00 | Monona/Wingra | SnapPlus Technical Roundtable - Laura Ward Good (UW Madison) (1.0 NM) |
| 8:30-9:20 | Mendota 1-3 | Is strip tillage an effective soil management tool for soybean? Derek Potratz (UW Madison) What is the deal with tillage? - Francisco Arriaga (UW Madison) (1.0 SW) |
| 8:30-9:20 | Mendota 4 | 2019 Industry Update - Panel: Adam Gaspar (Corteva), Vince Davis (BASF), Nick Tinsley (Bayer) (1.0 CM) |
| 8:30-9:20 | Medota 5-8 | Wisconsin insect survey results 2018 and outlook for 2019 -
Krista Hamilton (Wis. DATCP) Dissecting True Armyworm management - Bryan Jensen (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 8:30-9:20 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | DATCP surveillance sampling program -
Heather Bartley (Wis. DATCP) (1.0 PD) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Mendota 1-3 | Farming on 20% slopes and in between streams -
Joe Bragger & Amber Radatz (UW Discovery Farms) (0.5 SW) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Mendota 4 | The king, the queen, and the joker of crop rotations in dairy - Joe Lauer (UW Madison) (0.5 CM) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Mendota 5-8 | When good Bts go bad - Chris DiFonzo (Michigan State Univ.) (0.5 PM) |
| 9:30-10:00 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | Elements and commitment to make a safe quality animal food product - Heather Bartley (Wis. DATCP) & Wayne Nighorn (Agres Consulting LLC) (0.5 PD) |
| 11:00-11:50 | Mendota 1-3 | Land management and water quality - Anita Thompson (UW Madison) Tile drainage principles - John Panuska (UW Madison) (1.0 SW) |
| 11:00-11:50 | Mendota 4 | Soybean - No fake news here! - Shawn Conley (UW Madison) Estimating the contribution of the soil microbial community to the crop rotation effect - Marian Lund (UW-Madison) (1.0 CM) |
| 11:00-11:50 | Mendota 5-8 | An updated perspective on Western bean cutworm management -
Chris DiFonzo (Michigan State Univ.) An overview of neonicotinoid contaminants in Wisconsin - Russ Groves & Ben Bradford (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 11:00-11:50 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | Safety data sheets (SDS) for feed compliance - Wayne Nighorn (Agres Consulting LLC) What an FDA FSMA inspection looks like - Wayne Nighorn (Agres Consulting LL) (1.0 PD) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Mendota 1-3 | Fertilizer market outlook - Chris Short (CHS Hedging) (1.0 NM) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Mendota 4 | Effects of seed treatments on the biology of soybean cyst nematode - Greg Tylka (Iowa State Univ.) Corn disease challenges of 2018 - What we learned and didn't learn - Damon Smith (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Mendota 5-8 | Waterhemp management in established alfalfa - Mark Renz (UW Madison) Kernel processing score: Determination with SilageSnap - Brian Luck (UW Madison) (0.5 PM/0.5 CM) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Waubesa/Kogonsa | The anatomy of grain dust explosion and how to avoid it -
Bruce McLelland (Fike Corp.) (1.0 PD) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Trade Show Floor | Understanding the growth stages for corn, soybean, and wheat - Lindsay Chamberlain (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Mendota 1-3 | Nitrogen fixing corn - Vania Pankiewicz & Jean-Michel Ané (UW Madison) (0.5 NM) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Mendota 4 | Effects of seed treatments on population densities of soybean cyst nematode and soybean yields in Iowa - Greg Tylka (Iowa State Univ.) (0.5 PM) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Mendota 5-8 | Forage harvest logistics modeling update - Brian Luck (UW Madison) (0.5 CM) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | The anatomy of grain dust explosion and how to avoid it (continued) - Bruce McLelland (Fike Corp.) (0.5 PD) |
| 2:30-3:00 | Trade Show Floor | Understanding the growth stages for corn, soybean, and wheat (continued) - Lindsay Chamberlain (UW Madison) (0.5 PM) |
| 4:00-4:50 | Mendota 1-3 | Nutrient form and fate through manure processing systems -
Becky Larson (UW Madison) How to build soil organic matter - Matt Ruark (UW Madison) (0.5 NM/0.5 SW) |
| 4:00-4:50 | Mendota 4 | 2018 Wisconsin crop disease survey - Anette Phibbs (Wis. DATCP) Integrated approaches to white mold management - Damon Smith (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 4:00-4:50 | Mendota 5-8 | Keys to alfalfa establishment in high yielding silage corn -
John Grabber (USDA/ARS) Non-alfalfa forage legumes for Wisconsin - Heathcliffe Riday (UW Madison) (1.0 CM) |
| 4:00-4:50 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | Grain markets, trade, and tariffs - Where to from here -
Dewey Hull (Advance Trading, Bloomington, IL) (1.0 PD) |
| 4:00-4:50 | Trade Show Floor | Rules of the road for spray rigs, fertilizer applicators, etc. - Lt. Michael Klingenberg (Motor Carrier Enforcement Section, Wis. State Patrol) (1.0 PD) |
Thursday, January 17, 2019
| Time | Room | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:50 | Mendota 1 | Vegetable weed management update - Jed Colquhoun (UW Madison) Variable rate irrigation for vegetable production - Yi Wang (UW Madison) (1.0 CM) |
| 9:00-9:50 | Mendota 2-4 | Nutrient management update - Panel - Eric Hurley (NRCS), Aaron O'Rourke (Wis. DNR) & Sue Porter (Wis. DATCP) (1.0 NM) |
| 9:00-9:50 | Mendota 5-8 | Herbicide applications: Finding a balance between drift control and efficacy - Thomas Butts (Univ. Arkansas) Wisconsin waterhemp and dicamba research and stake-holder survey - Rodrigo Werle (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 9:00-9:50 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | Economic development tools to support business expansion -
Brian Doudna (Wis. Economic Development Assoc.) (1.0 PD) |
| 10:00-10:50 | Mendota 1 | Evaluation of fungicide selection and timing for snap bean disease management - Amanda Gevens (UW Madison) Fungicides as inadvertent drivers of insecticide resistance - Justin Clements (UW Madison) (1.0 PM) |
| 10:00-10:50 | Mendota 2-4 | Methods of making variable-rate nitrogen recommendations -
Brian Arnall (Oklahoma State Univ.) NUE and potential environmental outcomes associated with N application timing for corn - Carrie Laboski (UW Madison) (1.0 NM) |
| 10:00-10:50 | Mendota 5-8 | Waterhemp and palmer amaranth challenges in Illinois: Status and management considerations - Aaron Hager (Univ. Illinois) (1.0 PM) |
| 10:00-10:50 | Waubesa/Kegonsa | Managers roundtable - What keeps managers awake at night and what we can do about it - Panel Andy Fiene (Premier Cooperative), Tony Grapsas (Jay-Mar Inc.), Erik Huschitt (Badger State Ethanol) (1.0 PD) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Mendota 1 | Field corner flowers: Effects on cucumber bees and pollination - Erin Lowe (UW Madison) (0.5 PM) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Mendota 2-4 | Variable rate phosphorus application: What you need to know -
Brian Arnall (Oklahoma State Univ.) (0.5 NM) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Mendota 5-8 | The ins and outs of pulse-width modulation sprayers - Thomas Butts (Univ. Arkansas) (0.5 PM) |
| 1:30-2:20 | Mendota 2-4 | Grain market outlook - Brenda Boetel (UW River Falls) Agricultural policy update - Paul Mitchell (UW Madison) (1.0 CM) |
| 2:30-3:20 | Mendota 2-4 | A roundtable discussion of Wisconsin hemp and CBD production - Jennifer Heaton-Amrhein (Wis. DATCP) & Steve Tomlins (Turtle Creek Gardens) (1.0 CM) |
