Mark your calendar: The 2024 Nitrogen Conference will take place on Feb. 13, 2024 in St. Cloud
University of Minnesota Extension and the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center’s Nitrogen: Minnesota's Grand Challenge and Compelling Opportunity Conference brings experts together to focus entirely on this valuable input. Current topics in crop production and environmental stewardship will be relevant and informative for today's agricultural producers and professionals and anyone else who appreciates high-quality, research-based information.
Certified crop advisers (CCA) can earn continuing education credits (CEUs) in soil and water and nutrient management by attending the conference.
2024 conference
The 2024 Nitrogen Conference will take place on Feb. 13, 2024, in St. Cloud. Learn more or register for the 2024 conference.
Find information about the 2024 conference sessions below.
Nitrogen: Minnesota’s Grand Challenge and Compelling Opportunity Conference
Feb. 13, 2024. in St. Cloud
Tom Rothman, Moderator
8 a.m. - Welcome
Innovation in Nitrogen Management
- 8:10 a.m. - Alan Blaylock, Nutrien - Enhanced efficiency fertilizers and new horizons in nitrogen sources
- 8:50 a.m. - Tyler Nigon, Sentera - Conducting your own on-farm studies
- 9:30 a.m. - Will Bomier, Minnesota Department of Agriculture - Funding opportunities for implementation of innovative practices in nitrogen management
10:10 a.m. - Break
Nitrogen Management and Crop Production
- 10:20 a.m. - David Franzen, North Dakota State University - Performance of asymbiotic N-fixing products in the North Central Region
- 11 a.m. - Chryseis Modderman, University of Minnesota - Nitrogen management with manure
- 11:40 a.m. -Vasudha Sharma, University of Minnesota - Variable rate irrigation and nitrogen management for corn production
12:20 p.m. - Lunch
- 1 p.m. - Daniel Kaiser, University of Minnesota - Nitrogen for sugarbeet production
Nitrogen Management and the Environment
- 1:40 p.m. - Matt Helmers, Iowa State University - Nitrogen management in and at the edge of fields to mitigate nitrate leaching
- 2:20 p.m. - Laura Christianson, University of Minnesota - Nitrogen loss mitigation: Lessons from an exhaustive review
- 3 p.m. - Fabian Fernandez, University of Minnesota - Optimizing irrigated corn production along with cover crops to mitigate nitrogen losses
3:40 p.m. - Adjourn
Introduction - 9th Annual Nitrogen Conference
Fabian Fernandez and Bruce Montgomery
Nitrogen management for sugarbeet
John Lamb, University of Minnesota - retired
PSNT as a way to manage nitrogen
Emerson Souza, University of Minnesota
Polyer-coated urea in Minnesota
Fabian Fernandez, University of Minnesota
Conducting research in your own farm
Gabriel Paiao, Vayda
Nitrogen fertilizer decisions based on climate data
Brad Carlson, University of Minnesota
Weather outlook for the 2023 season
Dennis Todey, USDA-ARS
Economics of fertilizers
Byron Parman, North Dakota State University
Nitrogen management in the context of soil health
Marshall McDaniel, Iowa State University
Update on the Groundwater Protection Rule
Margaret Wagner, Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Mitigating nitrate losses with woodchip bioreactor
Gary Feyereisen, USDA-ARS
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Fabián Fernández, Extension nutrient management specialist
fabiangf@umn.edu, 612-625-7460
Warren Formo, Executive director, MAWRC
warren@mawrc.org, 952-237-9822
Or visit: www.mawrc.org/events
This conference is a joint effort with the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center (MAWRC)
Thank you to our supporters!
- Corteva
- Koch Agronomic Services
- Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (SMBSC)
- Minnesota Corn Growers Association
- Minnesota Valley Testing Laboratories (MVTL)
- Nutrien Ag Solutions
- Minnesota AgriGrowth Council
- Syngenta
- Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
- Minnesota Department of Agriculture
- Agricultural Fertilizer Research and Education Council (AFREC)
- University of Minnesota Extension
- Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center (MAWRC)