Learn how to conserve soil, time and fuel with conservation tillage at the 2017 Conservation Tillage Conference Dec. 5-6, at the Best Western Plus Hotel in Willmar, Minn.

You’ll go home from this conference with hands-on, how-to information about nearly every aspect of conservation tillage.

The conference is hosted by North Dakota State University and University of Minnesota Extension services.

Here are some of the sessions:

• Tips for Achieving Goals in Soil Health; Abbey Wick, NDSU, Extension soil health specialist

• Making Sense of Microbes; Karen Ballen, U-M assistant professor

•  Cover Crop Approaches; Shannon Osborne, USDA Agricultural Research Service research agronomist, Brookings, S.D.

• Combating Compaction; Marla Riekman, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI), land management specialist 

• Digging in on Tillage Research; Jodi DeJong-Hughes, U-M Extension educator

• Strip-Till and Soybeans; John Gaska, University of Wisconsin Extension

• Pressures; Bruce Potter, U-M, Integrated Pest Management specialist

• Managing for Diseases; Dean Malvick, U-M professor

• Modes of Action for Weed Management; Allie Marks, Centrol Ag, independent crop consultant

• Micronutrients; Dan Kaiser, U-M associate professor

• Nitrogen Management for Minnesota; Fabián Fernández, U-M assistant professor

• Fine-Tuning Fertility in North Dakota; Dave Franzen, NDSU Extension soil specialist

• Making Sense of Reducing Tillage and Using Cover Crops; farmer panel

Registration is $140 per person now through Nov. 21. After Nov. 21, it is $180 per person.

For more information and to registration online, see the NDSU soil health webpage. Or call Jodi DeJong-Hughes, U-M Extension tillage specialist, at 320-235-0726, ext. 2006; or email her at [email protected].

Source: NDSU and U-M Extension