Registration open for Nebraska Master Irrigator Design Summits

Registration open for Nebraska Master Irrigator Design Summits

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We are excited to launch Master Irrigator in Nebraska and would like your help to build it! Master Irrigator is a producer-directed comprehensive educational series focused on taking your irrigated acres to the next level. We are hosting a series of Design Summits bringing together farmers, industry, extension, and policy partners. We'll preview and discuss across four key themes:

  1. Taking your irrigated acres to the next level
  2. Taking your soils to the next level
  3. Navigating current events & policies
  4. Leading for success

There will also be private industry booths and lunch is provided curtesy of those vendors.

Register by selecting the location below:

Industry partners & panelists: 

Arable, CropX, Delta Plastics, Hunter Ag, Komet, Nelson, Prairie Fire Ag Solutions, Reinke, Sentinel, Valley, T-L (NP, CC, B), Carter Stara (CC, B), BioAg Solutions (NP)

Policy Panelists:

NRCS, MRNRD, LLNRD, CPNRD, LBBNRD, LBNRD, NNRD, LNNRD, LCNRD, LENRD, LNWNRD, NPNRD, NDEE, NDNR TNC Nebraska

Schedule for the day: 

9:00    Registration - Industry booths
9:30    Introductions
9:40    Theme 1: Value of an inch of water
10:10    Irrigation industry panel
10:30    Break/networking
11:00    Theme 1: System peak performance
11:20    Theme 1: TAPS water results
11:40    Theme 1 discussion
12:00    Lunch (courtesy of our industry partners) & overall format discussion
12:40    Theme 2: Soil Health
1:10    Theme 2: N Management
1:40    Theme 2: TAPS N
2:00    Theme 2: Soils discussion
2:20    Industry panel
2:40    Break/networking
3:00    Theme 3 policy panel: NRCS, NRD
3:20    TAPS grower followed by Theme 3 & 4 discussion
4:00    Adjourn

This event is sponsored by University of Nebraska Extension and USDA-NRCS. Any questions, please reach out to Crystal Powers, Water and Cropping Systems Educator.