The annual Lonoke, Prairie and Pulaski County Ag Day and winter crop production meeting will put rice, beans, corn, sorghum production in the spotlight.
The meeting opens at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, at the Carlisle First United Methodist Church.
“This meeting will cover rice, soybean, corn and grain sorghum production and growers will hear from a variety of experts in agronomy, plant pathology and insects,” said Keith Perkins, Lonoke County extension staff chair for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. “This is a place to get a fresh start for the 2017 growing season.”
Continuing education credits are available for crop consultants and others in the industry.
The agenda includes:
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8-8:45 a.m.- Yeshi Weshi, assistant professor-Plant Pathology, Division of Agriculture
8:45-9:30 a.m. – Jason Kelley, extension wheat and feed grains specialist, Division of Agriculture
9:30-10:30 a.m. – Jeremy Ross, extension soybean specialist, Division of Agriculture
10:45-11:45 a.m. – Gus Lorenz, extension entomologist, Division of Agriculture
11:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m. – Lunch/FCS Poster/2016 County Demonstration/Sponsor Slide Show
12:30-1:30 p.m. – Jarrod Hardke, extension rice agronomist, Division of Agriculture
1:30 p.m. – Bob Scott, extension weed scientist, Division of Agriculture
Details: Lonoke County Extension Office, 501-676-3124, or http://uaex.edu/farm-ranch/crops-commercial-horticulture/ag-tech-calendar.aspx