The Western Kansas Agricultural Research Centers (WKARC), one of several administrative units accountable to the KAES director, is composed of four sub-units including the Agricultural Research Center - Hays (ARCH), the Southwest Research-Extension Center - Garden City(SWREC) and Southwest Research-Extension Center - Tribune (SWREC-T), and the Northwest Research-Extension Center - Colby (NWREC).

 

Central Plains Irrigation Conference & Exposition
City Limits Convention Center
Colby, Kansas
February 21-22, 2012

Concurrent Session Topics:

• Crop Water Budget: Effects of Tillage Systems
• Crop Water Budget: Effects of Irrigation Management
• Optimizing Crop Water Productivity when Irrigation Water is Limited
• Optimizing Crop Water Productivity Using Center Pivot Irrigation
• Optimizing Crop Water Productivity Using Subsurface Drip Irrigation
• Emerging Irrigation Scheduling Technologies
• Decision Support Software for the Irrigation Manager
• Crop Insurance and Economic Issues

General Sessions:

• Legislative Initiative to Manage the Ogallala
• Kansas Irrigation Trends and Impacts

There will be an equipment exposition open Tuesday and a portion of Wednesday morning.  Exhibitors will represent many facets of the irrigation industry.
 

Registration includes:

• Admittance to All Sessions
• Admittance to the Exposition
• Two Lunches
•  Breaks
• A Copy of the Proceedings

For more information contact Donna Lamm, CPIA executive assistant, at 785-462-7574, or 462-7140, or e-mail at donnalamm@yahoo.com.

Further information and registration can also be obtained at http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/sdi/REvents/cpia.html

Sponsored by Kansas State University, University of Nebraska, Colorado State University, and Central Plains Irrigation Association