January 17, 2025

Rhythm City Casino Resort
7077 Elmore Ave, Davenport, Iowa

Crop Advantage Series meetings provide a solid foundation of current, research-based crop production information to help you make informed decisions. Topics for each meeting are selected for your fields and your growing conditions.

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Program

8:30     Registration opens

8:55     Welcome – Virgil Schmitt, extension field agronomist

9:00    2025 Weather Outlook – Madelynn Wuestenberg, extension agricultural climate specialist (CM)

10:00    Session A (select one topic)

• Bug Brawl: Key insect pest challenges of 2024 – Erin Hodgson, extension entomologist (PM)
• Economic outlook for corn and soybeans in 2025 – Gary Schnitkey, professor, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, UIUC (CM)
• Sowing success: Navigating cover crop establishment and termination – Mark Licht, extension cropping systems specialist (SW)
• Tools and tactics to manage waterhemp – Wes Everman, extension weed management specialist (PM)

10:50    Break

11:10    Session B (select one topic)

• Current strategies for disease management in field crops – Boris Camiletti, assistant professor, plant pathology, UIUC (PM)
• Economic outlook for corn and soybeans in 2025 – Gary Schnitkey, professor, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, UIUC (CM)
• EPA’s Herbicide Strategy – How it will impact you and your operation – Wes Everman, extension weed management specialist (PM)
• Resistance is a sticky situation for soybean aphid – Erin Hodgson, extension entomologist (PM)

12:00    Lunch (provided)

1:00    Session C (select one topic)

• A deep dive into nitrification inhibitors – Richard Roth, extension nitrogen science specialist (NM)
• Bug Brawl: Key insect pest challenges of 2024 – Ashley Dean, extension education specialist, Entomology (PM)
• Economic outlook for corn and soybeans in 2025 – Gary Schnitkey, professor, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, UIUC (CM)
• Tools and tactics to manage waterhemp – Wes Everman, extension weed management specialist (PM)

2:00    Session D (select one topic)

• EPA’s Herbicide Strategy – How it will impact you and your operation – Wes Everman, extension weed management specialist (PM)
• Pasture trees: Economic and ecologic pathways to success – Billy Beck, extension forestry specialist (CM)
• Phosphorus: The old, the new, the future – Andrew Margenot, associate professor, soil fertility, UIUC (NM)
• Resistance is a sticky situation for soybean aphid – Ashley Dean, extension education specialist, Entomology (PM)

2:50     Break

3:10    Session E (select one topic)

• Iowa Private Pesticide Applicator Continuing Instruction Course. Additional fee applies. Applicators must attend the entire meeting to receive recertification credit. – Virgil Schmitt, extension field agronomist
• Lean and Mean Crop Production Panel – Mark Licht, extension cropping systems specialist, Wes Everman, extension weed management specialist, Boris Camiletti, assistant professor, plant pathology, UIUC, Erin Hodgson, extension entomologist, Andrew Margenot, associate professor, soil fertility, UIUC, Richard Roth, extension nitrogen science specialist
  
  
  

4:10     Meeting adjourns

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Registration Information

Register early and save! Early registration is $75 and ends at midnight on January 10, 2025. Late or on-site registration is $100. Registration includes lunch, refreshment breaks, and CCA credits.

Please note that private pesticide applicator continuing education is NOT included in the registration. The $30 fee for that will be collected on-site.

Reminders

• Cancellations requesting a refund must be received no later than 3 days prior to the meeting (except weather related).
• Confirmation of registration and receipts are sent via email. Please provide a valid email address when registering.
• For assistance with registration, receipts, cancellation or questions on the status of your registration please contact Registration Services at (515) 294-6222 or registrations@iastate.edu.

Weather

If weather conditions cause a change in meeting plans a notice will be posted on this webpage, emailed to pre-registered attendees,  and provided to local media and radio stations. Any decisions regarding holding the meeting will be announced before 6:00 AM the day of the meeting. Meetings will not be rescheduled. Those registered may transfer to another location or request a refund.

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The Davenport Crop Advantage is presented
by Iowa State University Extension and
Outreach in cooperation with Illinois
Extension.

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A special thanks to these local Crop Advantage Series sponsors: