AG UPDATE

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Merrick County Youth and Agriculture Education Center
1784 Fairgrounds Road
Central City

Helping You Take Your Farm to the Next Level

9:00 Exhibits open- Breakfast refreshments
9:30 Opening
Steve Melvin, Extension Educator, Irrigated Cropping Systems
Brad Schick, Extension Educator, Beef Systems
9:35 Corn & Soybean Update
Brandon Hunnicutt, Nebraska Farmer and National Corn Growers Association Board of Directors
Greg Greving, Nebraska Farmer and United Soybean Board director
9:55 USDA Updates
Lorrie Robinson, FSA, Jacob Kendrick, NRCS, and Bill Sheppard, Rural Development
10:10 Understanding Southern Power's Irrigation Pricing Changes & Some Options
John Hay, Extension Educator - Biological Systems Engineering
10:40 Break
10:55 Overview of economic return & feasibility of on-farm solar, Plus Leasing Land for Solar
Development
John Hay
11:25 Non-Chemical Weed Control
Paul & James Huenefeld, Nebraska Farmers & Innovators
12:00 Lunch sponsored by Archer Credit Union
1:00 2022 Weed Management in the Platte Valley
Chris Proctor, Extension Educator Weed Management
1:30 Land Rental Considerations for 2022 & Sale Prices
Jim Jansen, Extension Educator Ag Economics
2:00 Irrigation Scheduling Using Real-time ET Generated From Free Satellite Images Of Your
Field and Other Satellite Map Analysis Tools
Christopher Neale, Irrigation Research, UNL & Guillermo Balboa, Crop Nutrient Management, UNL
2:30 Extension's Testing Ag Performance Solutions-(TAPS) comes to SC Nebraska
Steve Melvin
2:45 Break
3:00 Effects of Crop Residue Baling on Soils, Yields, and Animal Performance.
Brad Schick For more information contact Steve Melvin
3:30 Door prizes 308-946-3843 | steve.melvin@unl.edu
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 AG DAY 2022
Tuesday, February 2, 2022
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Ag Auditorium, Hamilton County Fairgrounds, 760 A Street
Aurora, Ne
Helping You Take Your Farm to the Next Level
For more information contact Steve Melvin
308-946-3843/402-694-6174 | steve.melvin@unl.edu

9:00 Exhibits open-Breakfast Refreshments

9:30 Opening
Steve Melvin, Extension Educator, Irrigated Cropping Systems
Brad Schick, Extension Educator, Beef Systems
9:35 Nebraska Corn Update
Brandon Hunnicutt, Nebraska Farmer and National Corn Growers Association Board of Directors
9:45 USDA Updates
Bill Gilg, NRCA, Leann Nelson, FSA, Bill Sheppard, Rural Development
10:00 Understanding Southern Power's Irrigation Pricing Changes & Some Options
John Hay, Extension Educator - Biological Systems Engineering
10:30 Break
10:45 Overview of Economic Return & Feasibility of On-Farm Solar, Plus Leasing Land for Solar
Development
John Hay
11:15 Efficient Nitrogen Application Using On-board Sensors and Adjusting Fertigation Rates
with Remote Sensed Field Data
Joe Luck, Extension Precision Agriculture Engineer
12:00 Lunch sponsored by Aurora Cooperative
1:00 Dashboard for Agricultural Water Use and Nutrient Management (DAWN)-
A Management Tool for Farmers
Guillermo Balboa, UNL Crop Nutrient Management & Christopher Neale, UNL Irrigation Research
1:40 Extension's Testing Ag Performance Solutions-(TAPS) comes to SC Nebraska
Steve Melvin
1:55 Nitrogen Sources and Inhibitors-What Makes Sense in 2022
Javed Iqbal, Extension Crop Nutrient Specialist
1:25 Irrigation Scheduling to Minimize Water & Nitrogen Use
Steve Melvin
2:55 Break
3:10 Interseeding Cover Crops: What We’ve Learned
Jenny Rees, Extension Educator, Cropping Systems
3:40 Door prizes UNL does not discriminate based upon any protected status. Please see go.unl.edu/nondiscrimination.
© 2016 The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.