6th Annual Precision Ag Conference

"Really came away from the conference pumped up." Lee Scheufler, Sterling, KS

Overall reaction..."the best PA conference I've been to yet!"

Although this is often said each year there seemed to be agreement that this years' conference addressed even more of the practical issues involved with doing intense farm management and on-farm research.

Speakers were warned by their colleagues that "they'd better be at the top of their game."  

Typically, the interaction between the audience and speakers is high and sometimes quite challenging.  One K-State professor was told "why that's just crazy" while presenting his research data on machinery management.  The discussion is brisk and is evident of the groups eagerness to learn and also of their willingness to share their own ideas, opinions and findings.

Links to presentations are highlighted below.

6^th ANNUAL KANSAS PRECISION AGRICULTURE CONFERENCE

JANUARY 15

WEDNESDAY MORNING

8:00   Registration/Coffee and Rolls

8:20   Industry Updates - Moderator, Scott Staggenborg (East Ballroom)

1. Product Update from Raven Industries - Andy Hill, Product Specialist

2. Product Update from John Deere AMS - Stacy Keeling, Product

Specialist, John Deere Ag Management Solutions, Wichita, KS

3. Product Update from Veris Technologies - Paul Drummond, Salina, KS

4. Product Update from Outback Guidance - Joe Redetzke, Hutchinson, KS

5. Product Update from AGCO FIELDSTAR - Dave Murray, FIELDSTAR,

Hesston, KS

GENERAL SESSION - EAST BALLROOM

10:00  Welcome and Announcements - Dave Wilcox, KARA President

10:15  Making Management Decisions with On-Farm Data, A Farmers

Perspective - Don Glenn, Glen Acres Farms, Hillsboro, AL

11:00  Collecting, Managing and Using On-Farm Data for Management Decisions

and Handout - Dietrich & Terry Kastens, Atwood & Manhattan, KS

12:00  Lunch - West Ballroom

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON - EAST BALLROOM

1:00   An Overview of New Software Options in Site Specific Management -

Darrin Grimm, Fairview, KS

1:40   Improving Nitrogen Management by Identifying Crop Nitrogen Need -

Robert Mullen, Agronomist, NTech Industries, Stillwater, OK

2:30   Site-Specific Management Research Update - John Shanahan, USDA-

ARS, Lincoln, NE

3:15   Break - West Ballroom

3:30   Buffer pH spatial variability, John Schmidt, Soil Scientist, Kansas State University, 
           Manhattan, KS

4:10  Research Reports - Individual descriptions of on farm research projects.

Farmers, crop consultants, university staff will give a brief synopsis of

research projects and results for 2002.

5:00   Poster Session and Social - West Ballroom

7:30   Mini-Workshops (choose one)

1. Hand-Crafted Site Specific Management Systems - Dietrich Kastens,

Atwood, KS; Dan Taylor, Sterling, KS. (Handout)

 2. Yield Data Stability Analysis - Randy Taylor, Ag Engineer and Scott

Staggenborg, NE Area Agronomist/ Kansas State University.

JANUARY 16

THURSDAY MORNING

8:00   Coffee and Rolls - West Ballroom

GENERAL SESSION - EAST BALLROOM

8:30   Using GPS Data to Influence Machinery Decisions - Randy Taylor, Ag

Engineer, Kansas State University

9:15    How Site Specific Management fits into the New Farm Bill - Dan

Meyerhoff, NRCS, Salina, KS

10:00  Break - West Ballroom

10:15  Soil Recommendations for High Yields and Precision Ag Research in Nebraska

 - Richard Ferguson, Soil Scientist, University of Nebraska

11:00  Relative Performance of Alternative DGPS Sources - Pat Coyne, Head,

Western Kansas Agricultural Research Centers - Kansas State University

Hays, KS

THURSDAY AFTERNOON

KARA ANNUAL MEETING - WEST BALLROOM

11:45 KARA Member Annual Meeting and Lunch - West Ballroom

KARA WORKSHOP- EAST BALLROOM

1:15   Boundary Line Analysis - Randy Taylor, Ag Engineer, Kansas State

University and Paul Drummond, Veris Technologies, Salina, KS

Research and Proposal Writing Process -" Dietrich Kastens, Chair KARA

Research Committee