Justin Mount, USDA Midwest Climate Hub NRCS Liaison and Natural Resource Specialist, will be presenting at SD Agri-Business Association Annual Agronomy Conference that takes place in Sioux Falls, SD, December 11th-12th, 2019.
TOPIC: Modeling Row Cropping Systems to understand impacts on soil quality attributes such as soil carbon trends and soil loss estimates as a result of erosion: As precipitation event intensity, timing and location variability continue to increase, join Justin Mount to improve your understanding of why annual row crop farmer soil resource resiliency can be somewhat determined by modeling their cropping system and observing the soil metric Soil Condition Index (SCI). This presentation will briefly discuss observed and predicted rainfall variations across the country, define the functions of a healthy soil, explain what SCI is and why SCI is a soil resource metric for annual row crop farmers plus explain how a cropping system can be model using the Integrated Erosion Tool (IET) to include IET outputs plus actions farmers can avoid or implement in order to increase financial resiliency.
The South Dakota Agri-Business Association is pleased to provide the annual Agronomy Conference in December of each year. This conference provides an opportunity to learn the latest trends in crop management and production, as well as to earn 20 CCA credits in just two days.
Details of the conference are provided in September of each year, so check back often!