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 2004 WHIRLWIND
NO-TILL EXPO
July 19th - 20th; August 24th, 25th
Speaker Information
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Kansas and Nebraska Speakers |
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Ray Ward
Ward Laboratories
Kearney NE
800-887-7645
E-Mail
www.wardlab.com
Ray Ward is president and co-owner of Ward Laboratories, Inc.
since 1983. He is an ARCPACS Certified Professional Soil Scientist with a
Ph.D. Soil Fertility, South Dakota State University (SDSU) 1972; MS Soil
Fertility, University of Nebraska, 1961; and BS Soil Conservation,
University of Nebraska, 1959. He has served as lab division manager for
Servi-Tech, Inc. in Dodge City, KS, from 1977-1983; associate professor at
Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater, OK, from 1974-1977; assistant
professor at SDSU from 1972-1974; and instructor at SDSU from 1961 to 1972.
He holds numerous memberships in scientific and honorary academic societies
and organizations. His goals for agriculture and agronomy are to help
production agriculture use its resources as efficiently as possible, to
provide information and data for developing the best use of soil and water
resources while maintaining environmental quality, to be involved in
“value-added” agriculture, and to provide accurate laboratory data for
managing production enterprises.
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Matt Hagny
Pinnacle Crop Tech. Inc. (consulting)
Salina, KS
785-825-7127
E-Mail
www.exapta.com
Hagny, an independent crop consultant, has
focused on no-till cropping systems in Kansas and Oklahoma since 1994. All
Matt’s clients have adopted continuous permanent low-disturbance no-till
systems with rotations typically including corn, milo, soybeans, cotton,
sunflower, cowpeas, alfalfa, spring & winter wheat, and cover crops. He
guides decisions on rotations, fertility, equipment selection and
adjustment, variety selection, and weed, insect and disease avoidance and
control. Matt is founder of Exapta Solutions
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Bob Klein
Robert N. Klein is an Extension Cropping
Systems Specialist at the University of Nebraska West Central Research and
Extension Center at North Platte, Nebraska. His work includes both
dryland and irrigated crop production of wheat, corn, soybeans, grain
sorghum, dry beans and sunflowers using herbicides and limited tillage to
conserve moisture, soil, energy and labor. Precision application of
herbicides is of major importance to this program and to improve on ground
herbicide application he has been using the computer to analyze spray
patterns since 1984. Recently he started using a laser analyzer to study
the effects herbicides and additives have on spray particle size and
distribution with various nozzle tips. Spray particle size charts are
usually derived from spraying water only through the nozzle tips. Spray
particle size and distribution affect both pesticide efficacy and drift
Since 1989 he has assumed leadership for
the Crop Variety Testing Program in the West Central District. Under his
leadership the program is being mechanized using state of the art
technology. He has served as chair of several Corn, Soybean and Grain
Sorghum Expo’s which are statewide events.
Prior to his current appointment he was
Extension agent and Chair in Red Willow County, Nebraska for 20 years.
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Greg Scott
OK USDA NRCS
Stillwater, OK
(405)
742-1222
E-Mail
Greg is currently a Soil Scientist/Project Leader for the USDA-NRCS soil
survey in Oklahoma. He holds a B.S. in Agronomy (1976) and an M.S. in
Environmental Science (1999), both from Oklahoma State University. He began
working as a soil scientist in 1976, and has experience in Oklahoma, Alaska,
North Dakota, Texas, and other states. In 2000, he accepted his current
position, where he leads the MLRA 80A/84A soil survey in Oklahoma, Kansas,
and Texas. He currently provides assistance to Langston University; speaks
to agricultural groups, high schools, and universities; and is active in
recruitment for the agency. His group is integrating new and emerging
computer/GIS technologies into the soil survey, and provides training to
soil scientists and others. Greg is a member of the Soil Science Society of
America, Professional Soil Scientists Association of Oklahoma; Geological
Society of America, and the American Geophysical Union. He is an ARCPACS
Certified Professional Soil Scientist since 1984. Greg and his wife Becky
have been married 14 years. They live in rural Lincoln County, Oklahoma,
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Greg Simpson
President, Simpson Farms Enterprise, Inc.
Ransom, KS
785-731-2334
E-mail
Website
Greg farms 2500 acres while conducting agribusiness sales of sprayers,
chemicals and fertilizers for 20+ years.
Simpson Farm Enterprises is an agribusiness
corporation located in West Central Kansas specializing in the sprayer and
conservation tillage segment of the agricultural community of the Central
Plains. Sales and service of spraying equipment, including Agco Spra-Coupe,
trailer sprayers, pickup sprayers, nurse trailers, and fertilizer equipment
for drills and planters constitutes the mainstay of our business. Simpson
Farm Ent. also engages in farming 2500 acres of cropland which helps gain
experience in the products that are sold. Simpson Farm Ent. stands ready to
continue providing the ag industry with quality spraying equipment, spray
equipment knowledge, parts, service, product education and technology as it
continues to grow.
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Bud Davis
USDA NRCS
Salina, KS
785.823.4552
E-Mail
Davis is state conservation
agronomist with NRCS for Kansas; a position he has held since 1992. He has
a diverse background in natural resource management spanning 25 years in a
variety of positions with NRCS including RC&D coordinator, district
conservationist and soil conservationist. He was a strong supporter in
organizing the Kansas Crop Residue Management Alliance—the forerunner of
No-Till on the Plains, Inc. and has been instrumental in cultivating (no
pun) partnerships and getting industry, government, and farmers around the
table to promote no-till and other profitable agronomic systems. His
primary work interest is the promotion of agricultural systems that are
profitable and sound in the environment. He manages the family farm in
Ottawa Co. which has been no-tilled for 9 years. Davis and his wife also
own and operate Forever Oak a retail furniture, home accessories and gift
store in Salina.
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Paul Jasa
University of Nebraska
Rogers Memorial Farm
402-472-6715
E-Mail
www.bse.unl.edu/rogersfarm/
Paul J. Jasa serves as an Extension Engineer,
University of Nebraska. He develops and conducts educational programs
related to no-till equipment and system management. He received both his
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from the University of
Nebraska and has been working with planting equipment and tillage system
evaluation since 1978. With his experiences gained from research and
Extension activities, he has become a good source of information in the
Midwest on no-till planting equipment and system management. If there is a
mistake to be made with no-till, he has either made it himself or has
seen it done. More importantly, he has learned from those mistakes and
wants to share that information stressing a systems approach.
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