SORGHUM PROFITABILITY SEMINAR TO BE IN RED CLOUD FEBRUARY 3

Red Cloud will be the site of one of two Nebraska Sorghum Profitability Seminars to be held the first week in February. The meeting is supported in part by the Sorghum Check-off and the University of Nebraska Extension and will be held at the Red Cloud Community Center on Thursday, February 3. The meeting is scheduled to run from 9:00 am through 3:00 pm. The other similar meeting is on Wednesday, February 2 at the Saline Center at Hwy 15 & County Road M west of Wilber, NE. The program will start at 9 am with registration and a chance for attendees to view exhibits. Coffee and cookies are sponsored by Nebraska Grain Sorghum Board. The morning program will start with a Public Forum with the NE Grains Sorghum Board representatives and then proceed through the day with a great line up of topics and speakers and a noon meal. Door prizes will be presented at the end of the day. Program presenters and topics include: “Long Range Weather – What’s Ahead”, with Al Dutcher, UNL Climatologist; “Market Dynamics for Sorghum”, with Dusti Fritz, United Sorghum Check-off Field Service Specialist; “National Check-off Update-Referendum Rules”, presented by Jennifer Blackburn, National Sorghum Producers; “New Weed Management Tools”, and “Herbicide Tolerance in Sorghum & BMP’s”, featuring Dr. Mark Bernards, UNL Agronomy & Extension Weed Specialist; “Water Use Efficiency of Sorghum”, with Jenny Rees, UNL Extension Educator from Clay County; “Management Strategies to Fit Yield Goals” - Dr. Charles Wortmann, UNL Agronomy and Extension Soils Specialist; and “Land Values & Rental Rates” plus “Sorghum Price & Production Cost Outlook”, presented by Dewey Lienemann, UNL Extension Educator for Webster County. The noon meal provided by the Nebraska Grain Sorghum Producers Association (NeGSPA) and Grain Sorghum Board will feature the traditional sorghum pancake feed with all the fixings. Agribusiness representatives will have exhibits to showcase new products and production/management information. Registration at the door is $5.00; however, members of the Nebraska Grain Sorghum Producers Association will be admitted free. Anyone that produces grain sorghum, or is just interested in the sorghum industry, is encouraged highly to attend. This research-based informational meeting is packed with timely topics and information that should help the production and management of grain sorghum in Nebraska and Kansas. Producers wanting more information are encouraged to contact the Webster County UNL Extension Office in Red Cloud at 402-746-3417 or email Dewey Lienemann at dlienemann2@unl.edu or Barb Kliment at the Nebraska Grain Sorghum Board/NeGSPA office at 402-471-4276 or email: sorghum.board@nebraska.gov.