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Barney Gordon will be the featured speaker Feb. 8 at the first Coffee Shop meeting in this year's series of educational meetings organized by the Central Kansas Extension District. Gordon, the agronomist at K-State's Northcentral Kansas Experiment Field will give an update on dryland cropping systems research and fertilizer application in no-till cropping systems.

Coffee Shop Agronomy meetings will be held at the Mentor Fire Station in Mentor, Kan., starting at 10 a.m. and adjourning by 11:30 a.m., Feb. 8, 15, and 29. On Feb. 22 the meeting will be held at the Ottawa County Courthouse basement meeting room.

Planned schedule of topics are as follows:

--Feb. 8, Mentor, Dryland Cropping Systems Research Update and Fertilizer Application in No-Till Cropping Systems, Barney Gordon, K-State NCK Field agronomist.

--Feb. 15, Mentor, Foliar Fungicides for Wheat, Erick DeWolf, K-State Research & Extension wheat pathologist.

--Feb. 22, Minneapolis, Feeding the Cowherd for Calving, Twig Marston, K- State Research & Extension cow-calf specialist.

--Feb. 29, Mentor, Field Crop Weed Control Update, Resistant Weeds in Wheat and Tips on Glyphosate Application; Dallas Peterson, K-State Research & Extension weed specialist.

The Coffee Shop Meetings are sponsored by the Central Kansas Extension District and the Saline and Ottawa County Farm Bureau Associations. For more information contact CKD3 agents Tom Maxwell, Salina office at 785-309-5850 or Ron Seyfert, Minneapolis office at 785-392-2147.

2/4/08
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Date: 1/31/08


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