Drought Meeting

SDSU Extension will host drought meetings from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CDT/9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. MT on June 17 in Hot Springs, Winner and Yankton.

The meeting agenda includes a morning session focused on crops and forages, lunch with a climate and drought update, and afternoon session focused on economics, marketing and livestock management in a drought. Attendees are welcome to come and go as needed or only attended the topics relevant to them. 

Agenda

• 10:00 a.m. CDT/9:00 a.m. MT - Welcome and Introductions: Heather Gessner, SDSU Extension interim Agriculture and Natural Resources Program Director and Livestock Business Management Field Specialist
• 10:05 a.m. CDT/9:05 a.m. MT - Grain Marketing Situation and Opportunities: Matthew Elliot, Associate Professor & SDSU Extension Agribusiness Specialist
• 10:45 a.m. CDT/9:45 a.m. MT - Weed Control and Herbicide Situation: Graig Reicks, SDSU Extension Weed Ecology Field Specialist
• 11:15 a.m. CDT/10:15 a.m. MT - Fuel Expense Control and Management: Parker Witt, SDSU Extension Crop-Livestock Systems Field Specialist, and Sarah Sellars, Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Sustainable Farm & Food Systems Specialist
• 11:45 a.m. CDT/10:45 a.m. MT - Light-weight Corn and Salvaged Grain Management: Erin DeHaan, Assistant Professor and SDSU Extension Beef Specialist
• 12:15 p.m. CDT/11:15 a.m. MT - Summer Weather Outlook and Lunch: Laura Edwards, SDSU Extension State Climatologist
• 1:30 p.m. CDT/12:30 p.m. MT - Livestock Marketing Situation and Opportunities: Matthew Diersen, Griffith Endowed Professor and SDSU Extension Risk and Business Management Specialist
• 2:15 p.m. CDT/1:15 p.m. MT - Economics and Making Decisions: Heather Gessner, SDSU Extension interim Agriculture and Natural Resources Program Director and Livestock Business Management Field Specialist, and Taylor Grussing, SDSU Extension Cow/Calf Field Specialist
• 2:45 p.m. CDT/1:45 p.m. MT - Mid-season Crop Failure Grazing Decisions
• 3:30 p.m. CDT/2:30 p.m. MT - USDA-FSA Livestock Disaster Programs: Logan Kopfmann, Disaster Relief Program Director
• 4:00 p.m. CDT/3:00 p.m. MT - Pasture and Range Management
• 5:00 p.m. CDT/4:00 p.m. MT - Closing comments and remarks

Presenters are subject to change. 

Registration

This event is free to attend and lunch will be provided. Registration is requested using the blue registration button above. These meetings are sponsored in part by the South Dakota Independent Insurance Agents Association.