Registration Now Open For Crops Conferences And Crops Days

Jan 08, 2015

By Dwane Miller

This winter meeting season, take an opportunity to join your fellow producers and ag industry professionals at one of Penn State Extension’s Crops Conferences or Crops Days. These meetings will allow you to interact with specialists from Penn State University to hear about the latest research findings in crop production.

Dates of Crops Conferences:

January 15, Lancaster County
January 21, Lehigh County (both daytime and evening sessions)
January 30, Union County
February 10, Bradford County

All Crops Conference locations will feature breakout sessions, which will allow you to attend the sessions which best fit your operation. In addition to location-specific programs, each Crops

Highlights:

Update on the 2014 Farm Bill
Soil Testing – What Do the Numbers Mean?
Crop Budgeting: Tools to Calculate Your Production Costs
Is Battling Pigweed and Other Resistant Weeds Your Future?
Grain Crop Management: 2014 and Beyond
Insect Issues from 2014, Including Bt Rootworm

Registration:

Save $5 by registering early! Early bird registration is only $15 for the day-long program.

For more information about a specific location, or to register, visit the Crops Conferences Website at this link.

Crops Days Dates for January:

Are scheduled at convenient locations across the state. The meetings kick off is in Blair County.

January 16, Blair County
January 20, Lebanon County
January 28, Franklin County
January 29, York County
January 30, Potter County

Source:psu.edu

Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.