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Spring work is now going full pace. You’ve had time to reflect on the things discussed at the 2014 CCTA Conference. From the evaluations that you submitted, it seems that CCTA is providing the information that you need. The CCTA board of directors and coordinator need to take a bow on having the foresight to meet this need. Remember, we appreciate feedback at all times, not just at the conference. If you feel passionate about a subject and would like it considered for our conference, feel free to drop any board member an email.

Soil health continues to be an emerging front in agriculture. Near-ly every magazine I read has at least one article on this subject. I’m betting that, regardless of your thoughts on the soil health tools (no-till, zero till or cover crops), you now think differently about your soil. We’re coming to understand that what goes on below the soil surface is as important as what goes on above. It is an item that needs to be managed, just like our seed, chemical

and fertilizer. As long as you keep telling us this is the information you want, CCTA remains committed to providing that educational opportunity.

I also, want you to know that CCTA will be providing another “summer workshop”. We will again be hosting Phil Needham. This time though, we’re going to the field. Phil will be taking us out of the classroom and “into the wild”! We anticipate that this will be a great opportunity to listen to Phil answer your questions about particular planting issues. We will be providing additional details as we approach the sign up time. Stay safe as we get busy and we’ll see you this summer!

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Colorado is the number one producer of proso millet and most proso is grown from varieties that have not been modified in decades. The only millet breeding program in the region is located at UNL in Scottsbluff, NE lead by Dr. Dipak Santra.

Dipak Santra was asked to speak at the 2014 High Plains No-Till Conference on their program and give an outlook for future millet varieties. With his presence it seemed like a good time to discuss the needs of the millet breed-ing program and possibilities to help with those needs. Thirty produces from around the region attended the meeting and decided to pursue the formation of a Millet Growers Association and a Millet Check-Off program.

Curt Sayles, Scott Ravenkamp, Shelby Britten, and Lane Stum were asked to advance the ideas further. They met with the Colorado Department of Agriculture in March to set up the next steps for organizing the Millet Growers Association. You can email Scott Ravenkamp at [email protected] to be added to the email list for updates and future meetings.

Micah Syler is the newest member of the Colorado Conservation Tillage Association Board of Directors. Micah grew up on a small farm near Kersey, CO raising corn and sugar beets. After high school, he attended Colorado State University where he graduated with BS degrees in Agronomy and Ag Economics. After graduating college, Micah joined Monsanto as a District Sales Manager Trainee in 2009, and then took over a territory for Dekalb and Asgrow in central Illinois, where he spent 3 years. In 2012 he took over his current territory for Dekalb in Southeast Colorado.

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Congratulations to the 2014 Scholarship Winners

The Colorado Conservation Tillage Association is proud to announce the 2014 Agriculture Scholarship winners are Patrick Halde of Cheyenne Wells, CO and Garrett Kays of Weir, KS. Both of these young men are involved in family farms and are sure to have a positive impact in agriculture.

Patrick Halde’s farming experience started early. He has fond memories of taking naps on the tractor floor-boards and playing with toy tractors in the shade of the pickup on their Cheyenne Wells, Colorado farm. As with all farm kids play turned into work. For Patrick, work turned into a passion. Learning farming practices from his father on their no-till/minimum till farm Patrick understand the concept of “farming water”. They use no-till practices to conserve moisture and protect the soil from wind and water erosion.

Patrick’s passion for agriculture is opening many doors for him, making it hard to decide which path to take. He recently worked with the Helena Chemical Company as a summer sales and marketing intern, where he developed, implemented and collected data for product trials and side-by-sides, worked to provide crop protec-tion services to producers and scouted fields for weed, insect and disease pressures. “This showed me the opposite side of the industry and I really enjoyed it,” he said. Once farming gets into your blood, it stays there so he is also exploring the possibility of returning to his hometown to enter into the noble profession of no-till farming.

As a 4th generation agriculturist Garrett Kays is taking a global look at agriculture. From the small town of Weir, Kansas to Washington D.C, Taiwan and China, Garret is getting a feel for how agriculture links us all.

Garrett served as an agribusiness development intern for the Kansas Secretary of Agriculture in the summer of 2013. This experience at the capital gave him insight on how government policies impact production agriculture and made him realize how he can have an impact in his community and beyond. Garrett visited Taiwan on an International Agriculture Youth Exchange Program in December 2012 and will be traveling to China in May of 2014 on a faculty led agriculture economics tour. These visits will help him deepen his under-standing of the significance of American agriculture overseas. “In order to be a leader in agriculture I know I must have more than a college education and a strong agricul-ture background,” he stated. “I must have a broad understanding of agriculture and I am committed to preparing myself through education, study abroad, work experience, internships and industry interaction.”

With global insight Garrett will head to Washington, D.C. to serve as a Governmental Relations Intern for Land O’ Lakes, Inc. this summer where he hopes to learn more about helping producers through the national politi-cal system. To keep him grounded and in touch with his roots Garrett continues to be involved with the family agriculture tradition in Weir, Kansas by running cattle with his brother.

Congratulations to both of these young men. The Colorado Conservation Tillage Association is proud to sup-port such outstanding young agriculturalists in their higher education and look forward to seeing the impacts they can make on our industry!

2014 Learning Opportunities

The goal of the Colorado Conservation Tillage Association is to disseminate information on conservation farming techniques. We accomplish this mainly by holding our annual conference, however we know that other learning opportunities hold knowledge for our members.

With this in mind we would like to encourage you to attend summer workshops and field days, both our locally hosted events and regional and national events. We hope our conferences have helped you think about your farming as a system and has you looking for new ideas and practices.

We have collected learning opportunity information here for your convenience and will have this informa-tion posted on the CCTA website www.HighPlainsNoTill.com for future reference.

June 11 and 12 - Green Cover Seeds Soil Health Field Days, Waco, NE (www.greencoverseed.com)The speaker lineup includes soil health experts Ray Archuleta, Jim Hoorman, Ray Ward, Paul Jasa and Keith Berns. Both field days will feature the same speakers, and while their talks and demonstrations will be similar, each day will feature unique information based on the fields being looked at. Registration is $45 for one day or $65 for both days. Both prices include lunch and a half price coupon for a Haney Soil Test. Registration is online at greencoverseed.com.

June 23, 25, and 26 - Panhandle No-Till Partnership Field Days (www.panhandlenotill.org)These informal meetings will cover all aspects of no-till crop production on dry land and irrigated acres. Participants are encouraged to bring questions and ideas on improving no-till production. Interaction be-tween experienced no-till producers, beginning no-till producers and those considering no-till are sure to lead to great discussions! Locations include Chadron, Alliance and Banner County, NE . June 22-25 - 6th Annual Word Congress on Conservation Agriculture, Winnipeg, Manitoba (www.wcca6.org)North America will host this conference for the first time. We welcome our guests from around the world to join us for an exciting and productive conference. Our goal is to showcase new sustainable innovations that can be applied by the attendees to their own farms when they return home, to create exciting new research opportunities as a result of sharing and to help those who frame policy better understand how to successfully encourage the rapid adoption of conservation agriculture practices around the globe.

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When I was a college student, almost every ag-related class I took mentioned the benefits of the “rotation effect” (better yields, fewer pests, etc.). However, aside from insect pests, how the “rotation effect” actually worked was always taught in only general terms, especially when it came to rotation effects in the soil. Recent-ly, however, genetic methods are allowing soil scientists to begin to see what happens in the soil when a crop is grown. In their paper, Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants, Turner et al. describe the genetic tool they used, metatranscriptomics, and how they used it to get an “initial comprehensive picture of the [soil] community structure” in the plant rhizosphere.

Microbiome: the collective genetic information of the microbial community in an environment

Rhizosphere: the narrow region of soil that is directly influenced by root secretions and associated soil mi-croorganisms (it’s the soil that sticks to plant roots when roots are carefully removed from the soil and lightly shaken)

To do this they grew wheat, oat, and peas in a Norwich, UK soil for 4 weeks. They then carefully removed the plants and separated the bulk soil from the rhizosphere soil. Next, using metatranscriptomics and lots of com-plicated data processing, they analyzed the life in the rhizosphere and bulk soils.

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rotation effect. So, if you want to change your soil’s microbiome, change your crop.

Legumes are special. Legumes have always been known to be a good rotation crop – this research hints at why (besides nitrogen fixation effects). The data showed that the microbiome of the pea rhizosphere was much different from those of the cereals (oat and wheat), and that peas enhanced the rhizosphere for mycorrhizae better than the cereals.

The rhizosphere is where the rotation effect happens in the soil. The research found the differences between species in the rhizosphere. All the crops enhanced protozoa and nematodes in the rhizosphere. The bulk soil’s microorganisms were not changed by the plants.Here are a few implications of all this.

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As always, there is more complexity than we would like – the paper mentions new estimates of the diver-sity in soil: 50,000+ species of bacteria in a gram of soil. There is evidence that it is not just at the species level where differences can be seen in the rhizosphere, but also at the variety level. “Small changes in plant genotype can have complex and unexpected effects on soil microbes surrounding the roots,” states one of the authors. In addition, the changes to the rhizosphere brought on by crops may not always be beneficial. This study found that the pea enhanced root-knot nematode in its rhizosphere. So, while this new method is exciting and potentially powerful, the answers that will help us make agriculture more sustainable will still take a lot of hard work.

Turner T.R., Ramakrishnan K., Walshaw J., Heavens D., Alston M., Swarbreck D., Osbourn A., Grant A. & Poole P.S. (2013). Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants, The ISME Journal, 7 (12) 2248-2258. DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.119

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2015 Conference Keynote SpeakersSteve Siemens

Anyone working on, or running, a farm knows farming can be a stressful occupation. At some point in time each of us viewed agriculture in a positive light and chose this lifestyle. Over the years agriculture changes – weather, markets, equipment, and labor all impact our operations and we can loose our enthusiasm. On top of that no-till requires us to think differently about farm-ing and use different management practices. Sometimes it is not easy to change the way we think or embrace challenges in our day-to-day operations.

Steve Siemens will help you look at these challeng-es as opportunities and put the fun back in agri-culture again with his interactive, humorous and motivating style! Steve knows, “Very few people like to change and it seems the older people get, the harder it is for them to change. We live in a world full of change. If people and organizations are going to stay on the cutting edge, they must have a willingness to take risks, fail, try new things, and change. Once you have stepped across the line, gotten out of the box, and started thinking differently, you will be one of those people who will change. You will discover that when you’re through changing, you’re through.” (*)

The past High Plains No-Till Conferences have chal-lenged attendees’ way of thinking. The 2015 con-ference will be no different. Steve will help us look forward to challenges, evaluate new concepts, and embolden us to take risks, fail, try new things and change in 2015.

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Dr. Kris Nichols

Kris Nichols has been a Soil Microbiologist with the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) North-ern Great Plains Research Laboratory (NGPRL) in Mandan, ND for over seven years. She was raised on a primarily corn-soybean conventional farm in southwestern Minnesota. Kris received Bachelor of Science degrees in Plant Biology and in Genetics and Cell Biology from the University of Minnesota in 1995, a Masters degree in Environmental Mi-crobiology from West Virginia University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Soil Science from the University of Maryland in 2003.

Since 1993, she has studied arbuscular mycorrhi-zal (AM) fungi – a plant-root symbiont. Her most recent work involves the investigation of glomalin – a substance produced by AM fungi. Glomalin contributes to nutrient cycling by protecting AM hyphae transporting nutrients from the soil to the plant and to soil structure and plant health by helping to form and stabilize soil aggregates.

At he 2014 High Plains No-Till Conference we were introduced to AM fungi in a breakout session. This year Dr. Nichols will educate all of us on the benefits of AM fungi and glomalin in the Tuesday General Session.

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CCTA and NTOP to offer Wheat Drilling Clinics with Phil Needham

CCTA is proud to announce they will hold a small group Wheat Drilling Clinic with Phil Needham August 20th and August 21st in Goodland, KS

Registrations for this one-day event will be limited to the first 75 participants on each day. Cost is only $150 and includes the newest edition of Needham Ag’s Wheat Management Guide. Registration will

open July 1st at www.highplainsnotill.com!

CCTA would like to thank Colorado Corn and their Board of Directors for organizing the Rocky Mountain Oyster fry and donating the Oysters, Colorado Sunflower Administrative Committee and Colorado Mills for donating the sunflower oil and Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee and ConAgra for the Ultragrain flour used to make the breadsticks for the 2014 Beer N Bull Session at the High Plains No-Till Conference! CCTA would also like to thank Camp Cook Concessions for the meals throughout the conference.

2014 Beer N Bull Sponsors

Burlington 719-346-7970 Cheyenne Wells 719-767-2042

Fort Morgan 970-867-7811 Prospect Valley 303-644-4117

Timnath 970-484-4610 Wray 970-484-4610

*Fertilizer*

*Custom Application*

*Chemicals*

*Seed*

*Precision Ag*

Please call on our Colorado locations for all of your farming input needs.

SFE of RansomP.O. Box 70Ransom, KS 675721.800.235.5359

SFE of Hays1036B E Hwy 40 BypassHays, KS 676011.888.228.3611

SFE of Great Bend603 MacArthur RdGreat Bend, KS 675301.866.379.1426SFE of Beloit

3120A US Hwy 24Beloit, KS 674201.888.232.8558

CCTA is a non-profit organization serving all the States in the High Plains Region. It is a resource of experienced farmers working with industry, University and agricultural agency personnel whose goal is to spread research and on-farm gained information about conservation farming practices.

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