UT Agricultural Economics & More Field Day

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The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status. Tobacco, Beef & More Field Day Highland Rim Research & Education Center June 24, 2010 7:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Biosolids and Forage Fertilization UT Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science Center for Tobacco Grower Research UT Agricultural Economics Livestock Marketing UT Agricultural Economics Pest Diagnostics UT Soil, Plant & Pest Center Speakers Andy Bailey, Associate Professor – Dark Tobacco Specialist UK/UT Extension Joe Beeler, Forage Research Associate UT Plant Science Department Paul Denton, Professor – Burley Specialist UT Plant Science Department Shawn Hawkins, Assistant Professor – Animal Waste Management UT Extension, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science Debbie Joines, Manager UT Soil, Plant & Pest Center Patrick Keyser, Associate Professor & Coordinator Center for Native Grasslands Management UT Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries Rob Holland, Director – Center for Profitable Agriculture Bob Miller, Professor – Tobacco Breeding UT/UK AgResearch Plant Sciences Bob Pearce, Associate Extension Professor – Tobacco Production UK Ag, Plant & Soil Science Bill Pitt, Research Associate UT AgResearch, Highland Rim AgResearch & Education Center Perry Pratt, Research Associate UT AgResearch, Highland Rim AgResearch & Education Center Hugh Savoy, Associate Professor – Soil Fertility & Testing UT Extension, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science Neal Schrick, Professor – Reproductive Physiology UT AgResearch, Animal Science Jerri Lynn Sims, Extension Area Specialist UT Extension, Montgomery County John Waller, Associate Professor – Ruminant Nutrition UT Animal Science Forbes Walker, Associate Professor – Environmental Soil Science UT Extension, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science 300-6/10 E11-6015-00-020-10 10-0235

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The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs

and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex,

pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.

Tobacco, Beef & More

Field DayHighland Rim Research

& Education Center

June 24, 20107:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Biosolids and Forage Fertilization UT Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science

Center for Tobacco Grower ResearchUT Agricultural Economics

Livestock Marketing UT Agricultural Economics

Pest DiagnosticsUT Soil, Plant & Pest Center

Speakers

Andy Bailey, Associate Professor – Dark Tobacco Specialist UK/UT Extension

Joe Beeler, Forage Research AssociateUT Plant Science Department

Paul Denton, Professor – Burley SpecialistUT Plant Science Department

Shawn Hawkins, Assistant Professor – Animal Waste ManagementUT Extension, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science

Debbie Joines, ManagerUT Soil, Plant & Pest Center

Patrick Keyser, Associate Professor & Coordinator Center for Native Grasslands ManagementUT Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries

Rob Holland, Director – Center for Profitable Agriculture

Bob Miller, Professor – Tobacco BreedingUT/UK AgResearch Plant Sciences

Bob Pearce, Associate Extension Professor – Tobacco ProductionUK Ag, Plant & Soil Science

Bill Pitt, Research AssociateUT AgResearch, Highland Rim AgResearch & Education Center

Perry Pratt, Research AssociateUT AgResearch, Highland Rim AgResearch & Education Center

Hugh Savoy, Associate Professor – Soil Fertility & Testing UT Extension, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science

Neal Schrick, Professor – Reproductive PhysiologyUT AgResearch, Animal Science

Jerri Lynn Sims, Extension Area SpecialistUT Extension, Montgomery County

John Waller, Associate Professor – Ruminant NutritionUT Animal Science

Forbes Walker, Associate Professor – Environmental Soil ScienceUT Extension, Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science

300-6/10 E11-6015-00-020-10 10-0235

Tour Schedule*Registration begins at 6:45 a.m. at the field day assembly area off Oakland Road. Tours will run concurrently and will begin at 7:30 a.m. The last tours will depart at 10:50 a.m. Tours last approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes each.

Departure/return schedule for all toursexcept Highland Rim AgResearch Overview Tour.

Depart ReturnVans 7:30 9:00Wagons 8:10 9:40Vans 9:10 10:40Wagons 9:50 11:20Vans 10:50 12:20

If you need to request an accommodation for accessibility, please contact us at 865-974-7161.

Tour A – Beef How to Make a Calf Neal Schrick

Grazing Native Warm-Season Grasses Pat Keyser

Tour B – High-Moisture Hay

High-Moisture Hay Concepts John Waller

High-Moisture Hay: Wrapper & Feeding Demo Perry Pratt

Tour C – Forages

New Clover Varieties and Forage Variety Evaluations Joe Beeler Bermuda Nitrogen Fertilization and Toxicity Hugh Savoy

Nitrate Analysis: State Summary Debbie Joines

Assessment of Nashville Metro EQ Biosolids as an Alternative N Source Shawn Hawkins Forbes Walker

Tour D – Tobacco

New Insecticide Technology and Thresholds Bob Pearce

Conservation Tillage Tobacco Research Paul Denton

Tour E – Tobacco Dark and Burley Variety Development Bob Miller

Alternative Enterprises for Tobacco-Growing Regions of Tennessee and Kentucky Rob Holland Jerri Lynn Sims

Tour F – Tobacco

Weed Control and Herbicide Injury in Tobacco Andy Bailey

Sucker Control in Tobacco Bill Pitt

Highland Rim AgResearch Overview Tour

Highland Rim AgResearch Staff

*Four pesticide re-certification points are available in categories 1, 10 & 12. CCA credits are also available.

Field Day SponsorsEastern Dark Fire Tobacco Growers’ Association

Trade Show Exhibitors

Chemtura CorporationDorris Milling Co.DuPontGoad Implement Company Kentucky-Tennessee Livestock MarketMonty’s Plant Food CompanyP & K PivotsPerformance FeedsPfizer Animal Health Robertson Cheatham County Co-op Tennessee Farmer’s CooperativeThe Hogan Company

Educational Displays

Center for Profitable Agriculture National Weather ServiceRobertson County SCDTennessee AgrabilityTennessee Cattlemen’s AssociationTennessee Beef Industry CouncilUSDA Rural DevelopmentUT AgResearchUT Institute of Agriculture