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UK Winter Wheat Meeting is January 4

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The University of Kentucky Winter Wheat Meeting will be held at the Bruce Convention Center, 303 Conference Center Dr., Hopkinsville, KY. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. CT. 

TOPICS

  • 2018 Market Outlook, Profitability Potential, and Risk Management Update 
  • Reassessing the 2017 Wheat Freeze Event 
  • Weather, Climate, and Wheat in Kentucky 
  • Predicting Winter Wheat Growth and  Development with GDDs 
  • Updates From Siemer Milling 
  • Applying Rye Management Concepts from Northern Europe to Kentucky 
  • Annual Ryegrass Management in Wheat 
  • Fungicide Management of Fusarium Head Blight: Do’s and Don’ts 
  • Feeding of Rice Stink Bugs may Reduce Yields in Small Grains  
  • Presentation of Annual Wheat Science Service Award

APPROVED CREDITS

CCA:  1.5 PM; 3.5 CM    
Pesticide: 2 General Hours  1 Specific Hour (Cat 1A, 10 & 12) 

For additional information contact:   Colette Laurent, UK Grain Crops Coordinator, (270) 365-7541 Ext 264    claurent@uky.edu 

Lunch provided by the Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association.

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Jennifer Elwell