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Proposed ethanol plant, biodiesel interest part of Worland's WEWyoming WESTI Ag Days Feb. 6 and 7 in Worland offers producers two days of seminars with subjects ranging from the national animal ID program and eminent domain issues to a proposed ethanol plant in Greybull. Theme for WESTI (Wyoming Extension's Strategically and Technologically Informative) Ag Days is "Partners in Agriculture," and it is at the Worland Community Center Complex. "I have always been proud that WESTI Ag Days offers a menu of programming with a priority to addressing the needs of both our farming and ranching clientele," said Jim Gill, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) educator for Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties. Seminar subjects spring from questionnaires given past attendees that not only evaluate programs and speakers but invite suggestions for future subjects. Featured luncheon speakers Feb. 6 are Dennis Sun, publisher of the Wyoming Livestock Roundup, and Tom Johnson, board president of Big Horn Basin Ethanol. The company is proposing to build an ethanol plant in Greybull this year, said Gill. "This is the first time he has addressed an ag audience about the plant." Johnson is also on an agricultural fuels panel that afternoon with Charlie Rife of Blue Sun Biodiesel, based in Westminster, Colo. "Blue Sun Biodiesel has expressed an interest in contracting with growers in the Big Horn Basin to grow canola to help meet its expanding market base in Colorado for Blue Sun's biodiesel," noted Gill. Sessions are concurrent and begin at 9 a.m., and end at 2:30 p.m., Feb. 6 followed by the "Controlling Our Destiny in Agriculture" panel that includes livestock issues and the agricultural fuels panel. The Feb. 7 sessions begin at 9 a.m., and end at 2:15 p.m. Other session subjects include farming and ranching for producers with disabilities, Big Horn Basin seed production, interactions among livestock and wildlife species, farming and ranching with information from satellites, common sense mineral programs, farm fuel production, key crop diseases in the Basin growing area, Global Positioning System technology for the farm and ranch, federal Agricultural Research Service research to knock out sugar beet diseases, matching the beef cow to the forage resource, insurance products for ag enterprises, 2005 beef quality audit: results and implications for producers, using Roundup Ready technology on the farm, and ranch record keeping software. For more information, contact the UW CES office in Worland at 307-347-3431. B 6 1/29/07 3 Star CO Date: 1/24/07
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