Learn management strategies that maintain yield and quality as well as marketing strategies to maximize price. Farmers and soil specialists will also share how introducing wheat into a crop rotation can improve profitability over the entire rotation.

Topics and presenters:

• Choosing successful winter wheat varieties, staging wheat and fertility management   – Shawn Conley, UW Soybean and Small Grain Specialist
• Winter wheat diseases and fungicide selection and timing – Damon Smith, UW Field Crops Plant Pathologist
• Using winter wheat and cover crops in your rotation to improve your soil – Jamie Patton, Outreach Specialist for the Nutrient and Pest Management Program
• Marketing winter wheat to maximize profits – Brenda Oft,Commodity Broker and Farm Market Consultant for Midwest Market Management
• Introducing winter wheat into a rotation to increase rotational profitability – Heidi Johnson, Dane County UW-Extension Crops and Soils Agent and Jeff Gaska, Dodge County Farmer

The cost of the workshop is $15, including lunch and refreshments.