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AIM
Symposium 2009
Thursday,
January 29, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 4:00
p.m.
Bicentennial Center,
Salina,
KS
Addressing Challenges Facing the Long-term Continuous
No-tiller.”
Interested in pushing your system to the limit? Join us for
this Premier Symposium featuring Agriculture’s Innovative Minds.
Any producer with a willingness and ability to excel is encouraged to
attend!
Pre-registration
is closed - walk-in
registrations at the door are welcome!
Just a reminder: This is an
all-weather meeting. It will take place in rain, sleet, or snow!!
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In order
to utilize your time in Salina, we are once again offering this
exclusive event!
The AIM Symposium is held in conjunction with the Winter Conference
but is a separate meeting.
The
premise of the AIM Symposium is to CHALLENGE THE INNOVATORS.
No-till on
the Plains is proud to provide speakers with the background, experience,
and limitless energy to give you a definite edge. Take advantage of their
practical and comprehensive knowledge and real-life experience.
Exceptional interaction and innovation is
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This is an
all-weather event. No refunds.
Spouses attend
for $90 extra.
Registration will be $250 per person
after Jan 15th
Materials and lunch are included in registration. |
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AIM Symposium Speakers
The AIM Symposium will feature dynamic interaction among top no-till
producers, including Dave
Brandt, Carrollton, OH,, Tony
Kodesh, Red Rock, OK, and Rick
Bieber, Trail City, SD. These long term no-tillers will
will share their insights regarding soil
management challenges in long-term no-till, maximizing soil cover in
long-term no-till, nutrient requirements in long-term no-till and Crop
sequencing – risk/reward.
Together we’ll learn of the successes and failures others
have experienced and work towards developing a successful system that
producers can take home and put into production. These are not theories –
these producers are living it and enjoying the economic gains and benefits
that improved soil health offers. If you are searching for ways to boost
your No-till system, don’t miss this opportunity. We are truly excited
about this follow-up event to a phenomenal Winter Conference.”
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 Dave Brandt, No-till
producer -Carroll, OH
Dave farms 900 acres
consisting of corn, soybeans and wheat and cover crop. He has been
no-tilling since 1972. This picture shows Dave in a field of Austrian
Winter Peas, planted after wheat, the first week of November. These peas
have 200 units of nitrogen for next year's corn.
"Free Fertilizer"
- A magazine article about Dave Brandt's cover crop experiences
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 Tony Kodesh, No-till
producer - Red Rock, OK
Tony Kodesh is a 3rd generation farmer from Noble
County in North Central Oklahoma. He and his wife, Connie, along with
their son, Scott, and his wife, Larissa, combine efforts to raise corn,
wheat, soybeans, alfalfa, and cattle. They have been 100% no-till farming
since 1997. Tony was inspired to do no-till farming after attending one
of the first No-Till On The Plains Conferences in Salina, KS. Since that
time, he has shared his experiences with countless farmers. Tony believes
that no-till is a practice of providing good stewardship of the
farmer's most precious resource, the soil. God commanded us to be good
stewards of the gifts He gave us.
An
Abundance of Opportunity - Leading Edge Featured Farmer: Tony Kodesh
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 Rick
Bieber, Trail City, South Dakota No-till Producer
Rick Bieber is a No-till
farmer from north central South Dakota. He farms in a 16 inch
precipitation zone on 5000 acres of cropland and also has 5000 acres of
rangeland for a 400 head cow/calf operation. He has been in a continuous
No-till system for the past 21 years with main crops of hard red spring
wheat, hard red winter wheat, corn, flax, peas, soybeans, sunflowers, safflower , and
alfalfa. Rick is intensely interested in keeping the farm operation
economically viable and gets to the heart of a problem quickly before it
becomes major. Rick is a strong advocate of diverse crop rotations and
profitability for successful No-till systems and has been a popular
speaker at a number of No-till conferences throughout the Northern Great
Plains and Pacific Northwest of the United States over the past 16 years.
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"WHEN I GIVE THE MORTGAGE TO MY SONS
THEY SHOULD NOT ASK: “WHERE’S THE SOIL?” "
Henry Bieber
This statement was made by my Grandfather in 1958 to the United
States Senate when asked to testify on the need for conservation
offices throughout the USA. So the passion to treat the soil
with respect has been taught through the generations on our farm.
My great grandfather immigrated from Ukraine to the USA in 1909,
bringing with him his family and the strong desire to have a better
life and instilling in his children the need to respect God’s lands
that we get to tend for our short tenure upon this earth.
Rick Bieber |
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 José Fernández Moreno
- AAPRESID - Argentina
Jose is member of AAPRESID (Argentine
no-till farmers association) and will present AAPRESID´S recently launched
Certified Agriculture Program, the evolution of no-till, an Environmental
and Productive Quality Management System in Conservation Agriculture,
based on GAPs (Good Agricultural Practices).
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Reactions from those
who attended past year's
AIM Symposium
►Tremendous! ►Material that I can take home and use today!
►Great practicality! ►Excellent! ►New ideas
►All the in-depth information ►Intriguing!
►Much information in short period of time! ►Extra one to one
contact time. ►Email addresses provided for all other
attendees. ►More time to go more in depth on the topics.
►Bringing in the best of the best! ►More time with
the speakers |
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