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Small Grain Workshops
The University of Minnesota Extension Service and Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council have teamed up to sponsor the annual Small Grain Workshops. This has been a quite popular program for a number of years as farmers are looking for a third crop to work into their corn soybean rotation. Plus, small grains are harvested much earlier than corn or soybeans. That gives livestock producers a place to haul manure, or an opportunity to do some tiling in the off season which means a lower cost.
The workshops will be on Zoom so pre-registration is important so you can get the link. You can do that at: https://a,umn.edu.southern-smallgrain or you can email Jared Goplan:gople@umn.edu or call 320-589-1711. In total there will be 3 workshops specific to an area. Monday February 15, 2021 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm with a Southeastern focus, Wednesday February 17, 2021 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm for Southwestern Minnesota and Friday February 19, 2021 from 9:00 to 11:00 am f
Southcentral Winter Dairy Series
The University of Minnesota Extension Service and Minnesota Dairy Initiative will be sponsoring the Southcentral Winter Dairy Series on a variety of timely topics. The discussions are free and you must be registered by noon on the day of the presentation. If you cannot watch live all the sessions will be recorded and emailed to those that registered for the program so it can be watched when you have time. You can register at: https://z.umn.edu/WDSSouthCentral. If you have questions check with your local University of Minnesota Extension office.
The topic coming up Friday January 22, 2021 will be Am I Ready for Robotic Milkers? You can learn from dairy farmers Ashley Swenson and Jim Dieball about why they installed robotic milkers and the keys to making them successful. Then on Friday February 12, 2021 the title will be Bessy s Bottom Line: How much is that cow actually making you? Joleen Hadrich will talk about feed costs per cow plus the opportun