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The curriculum covers essential maintenance protocols for clean grain elevators, feeder house chains, and headers to prevent mid-season downtime. We also analyze specialized harvest scenarios, including green soybean management and residue distribution, while highlighting the long-term impact of uniform spreading on next year’s crop performance. Participants walk through precise grain loss check procedures using industry-standard mobile apps and drop-pan methods to differentiate between header and threshing losses. This event is designed to help everyone navigate common harvest pinch points and optimize in-cab technology, ensuring maximum field efficiency and confidence in the weeks following the program. Target audience is combine operators.

Designed for a wide range of attendees, from curious farmers to licensed spray drone applicators and agtech startups. This full-day workshop will provide both foundational knowledge and advanced insights into the world of agricultural drone spraying, including compliance and regulatory for personal versus custom applicators, general operations, and set up and safety. Workshop includes hands on demonstrations from multiple spray drone providers.

Crop Advantage meetings provide a solid foundation of current, research-based crop production information to help make smart, informed decisions in the farming operation. Each Crop Advantage meeting is an approved continuing education course for Iowa private pesticide applicators. Additionally, these meetings are approved for continuing education credits for Certified Crop Advisors (CCAs).

Participants gain a better understanding of how planter downforce systems function, differences in settings of high speed vs. conventional planters, evaluation of wear parts and maintenance, and data management for planters. Intended audience includes: Ag Industry Professional, Farm Owner/Operator and Extension Professionals.

Stay certified and safe with Iowa’s Pesticide Safety Education Program. Offers continuing instruction courses (CICs) and resources for safe pesticide use.