Free Workshop! 
Pre-registration is requested to ensure you receive lunch event updates. 

Throughout the event, UK Martin-Gatton CAFE specialists and researchers will offer timely, research-based information and interactive opportunities for participants. Three  tours, each lasting two hours, will run concurrently, and participants will have the opportunity to participate in two  of the tours.

Participants will have the opportunity to delve into a variety of topics, including: 

• Corn disease concerns for 2024 

• Familiar and new soybean diseases to look out for in 2024 

• Insect updates 

• Corn and soybean variety trials 

• Weed control in 2024 and beyond 

• The "Weather Alert" app 

• Maximizing corn yields following a cover crop 

• Soybean yield and economic response to irrigation 

• Corn and soybean outlook 

• The fundamentals of soil pH management for production agriculture 

• Changes to AGR-1 fertilizer rate recommendations for Kentucky grain crops 

• UKREC dark tobacco infrastructure and research updates 

• Tobacco research updates from the University of Tennessee

• Sulfur fertility in tobacco 

The free lunch is sponsored by the Kentucky Corn Growers Association, Kentucky Soybean Promotion Board and Altria Client Services.