Many farmers work with a crop advisor who works either independently or for an ag service provider. During winter, it isn't only farmers that spend time learning about all of the latest research results to improve crop yields and quality and farm profitability. The crop advisors that work with and for farmers also spend their winters learning about how best to assist the farmers that they work with to improve their crops' yield and quality and improve overall farm productivity.
The Advanced Crop Advisors Workshop provides value
The Advanced Crop Advisors Workshop is one key learning opportunity geared specifically toward crop advisors each winter meetings season. One key to setting a speaker and topic lineup of value to crop advisors is including crop advisors in the process; several crop advisors serve on the workshop planning committee.
Crops experts from universities in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin will interact with workshop participants regarding a dozen crop production topics at the 2024 workshop.
Session details
Sessions offered on January 24:
- How World Affairs and Weather Affect Grain Prices in the Northern Plains
- Can Stress Tolerance in Corn and Soybean Keep Yields Moving Up?
- The AI Crop Adviser
- Making Cents of Soil Health
- Asymbiotic N-fixing Organisms – Natural Populations and Commercial Products: What You Should Know and What Questions to Ask
Sessions will be followed by a social hour during which time participants can visit with other crop advisors to compare notes about the 2023 growing season while enjoying refreshments.
Sessions offered on January 25:
- Historical View of Corn and Soybean Production – What About the Future?
- Making Cents of Soil Health
- Identification and Management of New and Emerging Diseases of Corn, Soybean and Canola
- Soybean’s Pest-a-palooza in 2023: Strategies for Managing Multiple Pests Simultaneously
- Asymbiotic N-fixing Organisms – Natural Populations and Commercial Products: What You Should Know and What Questions to Ask
- Is Biology Winning the Battle Against Soybean Phytophthora Root and Stem Rot?
- Avoiding Train Wrecks: Monitoring and Managing Corn Rootworms
Program details
When: January 24, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. & January 25, 8 a.m. to noon.
Where: Fargo Holiday Inn, I-29 and 13th Avenue South
To register: Visit www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/ag-hub/events/advanced-crop-advisers-workshop for details and electronic preregistration.
CEUs: crop advisors in need of CCA continuing education units can earn up to 8 CEUs when attending both days of the workshop.
Fee: $200 per person or $150 if attending only one day of the workshop.
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