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Use of climate information in agriculture topic of March 18 workshop
Nebraska
While farmers can't control the climate, they can moderate the effects of Nebraska's unpredictable weather patterns by learning how to use years of climate data, current information and climate forecasts to fine-tune their agricultural management strategies and reduce risk.
A Nebraska Climate Education and Extension Workshop March 18 will provide tools to help producers do that. The workshop will be at the University of Nebraska Extension Center at College Park in Grand Island and also will be available via satellite at some Cooperative Extension offices and over the Internet.
Registration for the conference begins at 8:30 a.m., with the program from 9 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. Extension specialists will address a number of agricultural production and pest management issues as they relate to climate.
The schedule includes a panel discussion from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on how climate information is used in crop production. Other topics will include El Nino's effect on growing season rainfall in Nebraska; crop insurance issues in multiyear droughts; weather and climate information resources for Nebraska; use of climate information in irrigation management; drought outlook and mitigation methods; and a summary of recent surveys on farmers' needs for weather and climate information. There will be question-and-answer sessions with each topic.
Registration for the free Grand Island conference is available by contacting Steven Hu, a university climatologist, at 402-472-6642, or by e-mail at qhu2@unl.edu, or by e-mailing econnelly1@unl.edu.
No registration is necessary to view the conference via satellite. The program will be broadcast over NebSat Channel 103. Those interested in viewing it should contact their local extension office to see if it is downlinking the program. The workshop also will be videostreamed live over the Internet at the Market Journal site, http://marketjournal.unl.edu, and archived there for later viewing.
The workshop is sponsored by the Nebraska Climate Education and Extension Project, which seeks to help Nebraska agricultural producers better understand and use climate data in their operations.
Nebraska extension is a division of the university's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Date: 3/10/04
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