K-State Research and Extension will host the 22nd annual Cover Your Acres Winter Conference for crop producers and consultants on Jan. 21 and 22. The conference will take place in the traditional in-person format at the Gateway Civic Center in Oberlin, Kansas.
Cover Your Acres is a producer-driven meeting focused on new ideas and research-based updates in crop production in northwest Kansas and the central High Plains region.
The conference, which typically draws more than 400 attendees from Kansas and other states, highlights the latest technology, methods, and conservation practices to improve crop production in the region. This year’s conference will feature university specialists and industry representatives discussing what’s driving profitability in northwest Kansas farms.
Session topics and speakers
- Determining equitable lease arrangements – Mark Wood and Glenn Conover
- Dryland rotation agronomics and economics – Lucas Haag
- Make your plan: Weed Management 2025 – Jeanne Falk Jones
- The best bets to place your fertilizer dollars– Dorivar Ruiz Diaz
- Improving dryland cropland with manure – Dave Poss
- Ogallala Aquifer – Facts, folklore, and what is Q-stable – Brownie Wilson
- Evolution of wheat viruses/End user-focused wheat production – Allan Fritz
- Machinery economics – When to keep, when to trade – Brady Brewer
- Forage production management and economics – John Holman
The same programs will be offered on both days of the conference. Participants attending both days will find catching most or all programs easier. On Tuesday evening, the sessions are followed by a social where attendees can visit with industry representatives and conference speakers while enjoying hor d’oeurves.
Online registration is open. The fee is $60 for Tuesday, Jan. 21, $55 for Wednesday, Jan. 22, or $80 for both days. After Jan. 15, and for walk-ins, the cost is $80 per day. The conference fee includes lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments and educational materials. The program will offer several continuing education unit credits for Certified Crop Advisors and 1A for Commercial Applicators credit.
Major sponsors for the conference include AKRS Equipment, Hoxie Implement Co., SurePoint Ag Systems, Lang Diesel, and 4G Farm and Sales.
