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Curt Arens TOUGH COMPETITION: TAPS began five years ago with only one contest sprinkler irrigated corn. Today, the competition includes six total contests, including sprinkler and SDI corn, both dryland and irrigated sorghum, winter wheat, and secondary sprinkler corn and cotton contests, as executed by Oklahoma State University. The farm management competition now includes six contests in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Tessa Burford | May 11, 2021 Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 Testing Ag Performance Solutions is celebrating its fifth consecutive year of farm management competitions. Originally the brainchild of Nebraska Extension specialists including Extension educator Chuck Burr, Daran Rudnick and Matt Stockton TAPS knows humble beginnings, as it began its development in 2016. ....
BY Krystle Rhoades, TAPS Program Manager | January 18, 2021 NORTH PLATTE, Nebr., –The Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS) awards ceremony was held virtually on Saturday, January 16, due to continuing Covid-19 restrictions. The TAPS program was created by University of Nebraska educators and specialists four years ago, as an innovative way of connecting producers to industry professionals and offering a way of testing out new advancing technologies through farm management competitions facilitated in North Platte at the West Central Research, Extension, and Education Center. The 2020 participants were honored Saturday evening with a number of awards. The sprinkler irrigated sorghum contest, in its third year, had 12 teams. The award winners were as follows: Greatest Yield was won by Marc Rasmussen of Cambridge, NE; the Highest Input Use Efficiency award wen ....