Registration Open For Kentucky Soybean Board’s Intensive Soybean Management Workshops

RAE WAGONER 

PRINCETON, KENTUCKY

Now in their eleventh year, Intensive Soybean Management Workshops are the most popular events the Kentucky Soybean Board hosts each year. This year’s Bowling Green workshop is set for Wednesday, January 17, at the Sloan Convention Center and will feature Matt Miles, Chad Henderson, and Temple Rhodes of Xtreme Ag. 

 XtremeAg is a community of highly successful farmers from across the United States coming together to offer an Xtreme look into their personal farming operations. XtremeAg works with a network of top farmers in key regions to expand the reach of trial work, new perspectives, insights and expertise unique to the specific areas of farming. This team shares its collective knowledge and methods of how to overcome Xtreme challenges of the environment, equipment, technology, and even products. The goal of XtremeAg is to help its peers by openly sharing their accumulated knowledge around pursuing profitability and success.

Check-in for the workshop is at 11:45, with lunch served at noon. The event will kick off shortly thereafter and conclude around 4 p.m. 

Workshops will also be held at the soybean office in Princeton and the Hardin County Extension Office in Elizabethtown on February 6 and 7, respectively. These dates will feature Dr. Seth Naeve, who has conducted long-term research on protein and oil content in soybeans across the nation, and Patrick Hurt of Kentucky American Seeds. 

Dr. Naeve’s applied soybean production and physiology research focused yield and seed quality enhancement will benefit any operation. Patrick Hurt will discuss how to utilize plant physiology, Plant Growth Regulators, nutrition, and management practices to increase soybean production. He will discuss new and exciting ways to affect soybean architecture by increasing nodes and branching.

The Princeton and Elizabethtown workshops have a morning schedule, with check-in beginning at 8:30 each morning and the events concluding with lunch. 

These workshops are brought to farmers free of charge by the Kentucky Soybean Board with support from the United Soybean Board. They’re just one way that the checkoff is used to return value to farmers across the state. Registration is required for accurate seating and meal counts. To register, scan the QR Code or visit the organization’s website, kysoy.org. ∆

RAE WAGONER: Communication Director