Conference Schedule
Conference attendees pre-select the workshops they will attend during the registration process. Select one topic in each session. It is helpful to print the workshop program and worksheets to make your selections prior to beginning online registration.
Room assignments will be completed after registration closes. A personalized printed schedule with workshop selections and locations will be provided to each attendee at check-in.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
7:30 am – Registration opens 1st and 2nd floors, Scheman Building
Last names beginning A - K go to 1st floor registration.
Last names beginning with L - Z go to 2nd floor registration.
9:00 am – Session A (select ONE)
1-Hart
Crop markets for 2022 and beyond
22-Mallarino
New phosphorus and potassium trials evaluated corn and soybean yield response to different soil-test values and fertilizer rates: Do results justify updating the 2013 ISU guidelines?
15-Robertson
Fungicides: Back to the basics
7-Licht
Strategies for cover crops: Where to start
32-DeLong
Strategies to manage for carbon in-field, in-forest and in-buffers
10:00 am – Session B (select ONE)
11-Kesheimer
Caterpillars that eat everything: IPM strategies for these voracious pests
22-Mallarino
New phosphorus and potassium trials evaluated corn and soybean yield response to different soil-test values and fertilizer rates: Do results justify updating the 2013 ISU guidelines?
15-Robertson
Fungicides: Back to the basics
16-Tylka
Update on the soybean cyst nematode situation
32-DeLong
Strategies to manage for carbon in-field, in-forest and in-buffers
11:00 am – Session C (select ONE)
11-Kesheimer
Caterpillars that eat everything: IPM strategies for these voracious pests
1-Hart
Crop markets for 2022 and beyond
7-Licht
Strategies for cover crops: Where to start
16-Tylka
Update on the soybean cyst nematode situation
11:50 am - Lunch (provided)
11:50 am - Women in Agriculture Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm – Session D (select ONE)
13-Kleczewski
What's hot and what's not: Disease and pests on the rise in 2021
2-Zhang
Will Iowa farmland values continue to grow?
20-Jha
Optimizing cereal rye cover crop termination timing to manage herbicide-resistant weed seed banks in Iowa soybean production
25-Andersen
Manure: Uncertainty, variability, and what it means for your operation
26-Jordan
Continuous living cover agriculture: A market-based pathway to soil health
2:00 pm – Session E (select ONE)
13-Kleczewski
What's hot and what's not: Disease and pests on the rise in 2021
2-Zhang
Will Iowa farmland values continue to grow?
20-Jha
Optimizing cereal rye cover crop termination timing to manage herbicide-resistant weed seed banks in Iowa soybean production
25-Andersen
Manure: Uncertainty, variability, and what it means for your operation
26-Jordan
Continuous living cover agriculture: A market-based pathway to soil health
2:50 pm - Break
3:10 pm – Session F (select ONE)
4-Todey
Understanding and managing changing climate conditions in Midwest agriculture: Information and tools
21-Mullen
What is going on in the fertilizer world?
18-Dentzman
Sociological and human dimensions of herbicide resistance evolution and management
28-Burras
CSR2: A refresher on how it works... maybe where it doesn't?
9-Anderson
IPM 101: The pest management skills game show
4:10 pm – Session G (select ONE)
4-Todey
Understanding and managing changing climate conditions in Midwest agriculture: Information and tools
21-Mullen
What is going on in the fertilizer world?
18-Dentzman
Sociological and human dimensions of herbicide resistance evolution and management
28-Burras
CSR2: A refresher on how it works... maybe where it doesn't?
9-Anderson
IPM 101: The pest management skills game show
Thursday, December 2, 2021
8:00 am – Session H (select ONE)
5-Archontoulis
2021 cropping year in review: Crop yields and soil moisture
17-Bradley
A summary of research results with dicamba
24-Helmers
4Rs of nitrogen management and cover crops for reducing nitrate-N losses
10-Bergman
Targeted spraying technologies: Past, present and future
27-Kyveryga
Interactive cover crop simulator to quantify economic and environmental benefits
9:00 am – Session I (select ONE)
5-Archontoulis
2021 cropping year in review: Crop yields and soil moisture
17-Bradley
A summary of research results with dicamba
24-Helmers
4Rs of nitrogen management and cover crops for reducing nitrate-N losses
10-Bergman
Targeted spraying technologies: Past, present and future
27-Kyveryga
Interactive cover crop simulator to quantify economic and environmental benefits
9:50 am - Break
10:10 am – Session J (select ONE)
14-Mueller
Fungicide considerations for soybean
12-Dean
Insect trapping networks in Iowa: Moths, corn rootworms, and implications for Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
19-Jha
Harvest weed seed control: A new technology to manage herbicide resistance in Iowa corn-soybean systems
23-Mallarino
Management of fertilizer, manure, tillage, cover crop, and alum or gypsum soil amendments to minimize dissolved P loss from corn and soybean fields.
29-Plastina
Are carbon programs the key to monetizing soil health?
11:10 am – Session K (select ONE)
14-Mueller
Fungicide considerations for soybean
12-Dean
Insect trapping networks in Iowa: Moths, corn rootworms, and implications for Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
19-Jha
Harvest weed seed control: A new technology to manage herbicide resistance in Iowa corn-soybean systems
23-Mallarino
Management of fertilizer, manure, tillage, cover crop, and alum or gypsum soil amendments to minimize dissolved P loss from corn and soybean fields.
29-Plastina
Are carbon programs the key to monetizing soil health?
12:00 pm - Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm – Session L (select ONE)
3-Glisan
Current conditions, climatological outlooks and the science of seasonal predictability
8-Hurburgh
Grain quality was REALLY hard to forecast this year!
31-Zhang
How do Iowa farmers and the general public value water quality and visit Iowa lakes?
33-Danielson
Seed Treatment (Category 4) Continuing Instruction Course
2:00 pm – Session M (select ONE)
6-Martin
Late soybeans early: Research on a high yielding soybean production system
8-Hurburgh
Grain quality was REALLY hard to forecast this year!
30-Cruse
Impact of changing precipitation trends on soil erosion risks
31-Zhang
How do Iowa farmers and the general public value water quality and visit Iowa lakes?
34-Danielson
Commercial Ag Weed, Insect and Plant Disease Management (Categories 1A, 1B and 1C) Continuing Instruction Course
3:00 pm – Session N (select ONE)
6-Martin
Late soybeans early: Research on a high yielding soybean production system
3-Glisan
Current conditions, climatological outlooks and the science of seasonal predictability
30-Cruse
Impact of changing precipitation trends on soil erosion risks