The goal of the University of Minnesota Extension and Minnesota Crop Production Retailers’ Crop Pest Management (CPM) Shortcourse is to educate and inform key crop production decision-makers with quality research-based educational programs. CPM Shortcourse sessions offer a wealth of pest, crop and fertilizer management topics that help optimize production while minimizing environmental impacts.
2025 CPM Short Course and MCPR Trade Show
The Minnesota Crop Production Retailers (MCPR) and University of Minnesota Extension collaborate to bring you the CPM Short Course and MCPR Trade Show each year. The 2025 event will be held December 2-4. For details and to register, visit 2025 CPM Short Course and MCPR Trade Show.
Audience
This program targets agronomists, salespeople (seeds, crop protection products and fertilizers), crop consultants, crop production specialists, government agency personnel, farm managers and anyone else who appreciates high-quality research-based professional training.
The program will offer agricultural professionals opportunities to interact with researchers through Q&A sessions after every presentation.
Certified crop adviser credits
Certified crop advisors (CCA) will be able to earn continuing education units over the course of the three-day program.
Questions?
Contact Bob Koch, Extension entomologist, at [email protected].
Past participant comments
"I can't say how much I like the format of this short course. I can get the training I want as well as the training I need to maintain my CCA."
"Good topics and very current. Excellent."
"For a program that on the surface looked suspect, this one has to rank as one of the best ever and I have been coming since the early '90s."
"The short abstracts appearing in the program were very helpful in deciding which seminars would be best for me."
"The topics in the concurrent sessions are very relevant to the problems we are facing today. The speakers do a good job and I enjoy attending the show."
"Very good program. It is good to see the progress of ongoing experiments. The topics pertain to issues agriculture is facing today."