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High Plains No Till Conference features outstanding sessionsThe High Plains No Till Conference will be in Burlington, Colo., at the Burlington Community Center, Feb. 2 to 3. The conference will feature a Trade Show with more than 50 vendors, educational breakout sessions and feature keynote speaker Murray Wise, CEO and founder of Westchester Group Inc. Breakout sessions cover a variety of timely topics for both the tenure and beginning no-till or minimum till farmer. Many sessions offer CEU's for certified Crop Advisors in Colorado and credits for commercial and private applicators in both Colorado and Kansas. Presenters from the breakouts range from University personnel of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska, to local producers, to experts in the agri-business industry. Breakout topics include: Wheat Pest and Insect Review, Drought Tolerant Corn, Herbicide Resistant Ryegrass, CRP Conversion, Planter Issues--Sunflower Seed Spacing Accuracy, Cultural Practices of Sodbusting, The Mechanics of Strip Till-Avoiding Common Errors, Stripper Headers and Residue Management, Succession Planning, The Two Sides of Sorghum, Groundwater District/Republican, Getting to Know Triumph Seed Company, No Till 101, Water Issues in the South Platte, Republican & Arkansas Basin, Sunflower Herbicide Update, Farm Policy-Grain Marketing, Water Technology Tools, Climate Policy, Soybean Panel, Canola Production in the East Central Great Plains, Limited Irrigation, Strip-till for Milo, Get the Most Out of Your No-Till Acre, Technology in Modern Agriculture, Wind Energy Development, and Irrigation Water Management at Season Boundaries. Complete descriptions of the topics and CEU's and Commerical and Private Applicator Credits can be found on the website, www.HighPlainsNoTill.com. Keynote speaker, Murray Wise, is the founder of the Westchester Group Inc., that has been in business 23 years and currently manages over $770 million of agricultural assets. Wise will offer conference attendees the opportunity of seeing firsthand how efficient American agriculture has become in the last 200+ years. Farmers attending will hear about the drivers in the world agriculture economy. Grain production and livestock production have created pressures as well as unique new advances. Wise's No. 1 focus will be China and he will give a look at savings rates and caloric intake as well as grain stocks and grain oil seed usage. Wise states that Chinese growth in milk production and utilization since 2000 is a story within itself. His presentation "Global Agriculture and Beyond," will include information on U.S. land prices, cash rental rates and water consumption and utilization. In Wise's view, global agriculture, particularly U.S. agriculture, has an extremely bright outlook and he looks forward to sharing it at the Conference. Complete listing and descriptions of the Conference schedule's twenty six different breakout sessions and the vendors exhibiting can be viewed on the Conference Website at www.highplainsnotill.com. Registration forms are also available on the website.
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