Central Iowa Agronomy & Supply
3rd Annual Pre-Season Meeting
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Ask the Experts
Network with Top Growers
Get New Product Updates
We have another great line-up of speakers for our 3rd annual pre-season meeting. This meeting is designed to provide the latest field crop production information to consultants and farmers. Speakers will share their 2020 recommendations and give an overview of the successes that they have seen in the last few growing production seasons. This should help you in developing new strategies or improve existing ones. Each of the speakers will be around the rest of the day to answer your questions to lend further help.
Something new this year is a presentation by an experienced medical practitioner who works with people in his rural area of Wisconsin who have health problems related to heavy metals, solvents, pesticides, mold or those spread by insects. We recognize that part of keeping your operation financially healthy can be dependent on you and members of your family remaining physically healthy.
We hope learning from these experts and finding out about these new products will be valuable to you and help increase your returns and provide rewards in your farming operation.
The take home message is that healthy soil creates healthy plants and nutritious food and grain which produces healthy and productive livestock and people.
The main focus of the conference will be on:
– Soil Health
– Plant Health
– Water Quality
– Micro-nutrients
– Optimizing Human Health
The top reasons you don’t want to miss this meeting:
What steps need to be in your cropping program and are both feasible and cost effective for increasing your ROI, minimizing costs while maximizing output.
Learn the steps to increase your Haney scores and why increasing levels can be crucial.
How can we build Haney scores quickly and cheaply.
What products proved valuable in 2019?
What are humates, what do they do, how are they measured and what levels are best?
If the planting season is a repeat of 2018 or 2019, how do we respond?
If cooler and cloudy conditions repeat in 2019, what products will help the plants respond to fewer GDUs and low sunlight levels?
New products tested in 2019 that deserve a shot on your acres.
The humate/mineral expert winner in Hefty’s High Yield and new $/A plot shares his thoughts.
Information about a mineral based product that supplies micro-nutrients plus eliminates disease pressure for the entire season.
Human health is increasingly challenging to farmers and Ag people due to exposures to pesticides, heavy metals, and Lyme disease. Information on testing, remediation and eliminating the disease. We will hear from a Midwest health professional who has had great success in treating people.
New and keen insights into the liquid we rely on every day and in every way – water. Information presented by the recent winner in the worldwide International Trade Council contest.
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00: Doors open/Registration
9:00 – 9:30: Introduction and presentation on new products with great potential with Bob Streit
9:30 – 10:00: Nutrient use efficiency with Dave Schwartz
10:00 – 11:00: Pursanova water technology with Vatche’ Keuftedjian
11:00 – 11:15: Break
11:15 – 12:15: Farmer and agricultural exposures with Dr. Allan Lindsley and Ryan Riley
12:15 – 12:45: Lunch (Provided) Short overview of the WakeUp product by Jerry Carlson
12:45 – 1:30: Combining microbial technologies for Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Nutrient Use Efficiency to Enhance Crop Yields with Rusty Rodriguez
1:30 – 2:15 How Minor Micro Nutrients, Microbes, Humics, Energy Products, and Essential Oils are Becoming the next Frontier in Plant Nutrition with Brad Forkner
2:15 – 2:45: Energized fertilizer applied to plants – benefits + function with Eric Massey
2:45 – 3:00: Break
3:00 – 4:00: Tillage tools – How they work and their adjustments with Kevin Kimberley
4:00 – 4:30: BioDyne solutions with Brody Benton
4:30 – 4:45: Q and A session
Speakers
Bob Streit
Bob Streit, CCA, CPCS, is an agronomist, plant scientist, crop consultant, international speaker and expert in educating audiences and individuals on the correlation between healthy soils and the production of healthy food, as it relates to good human health. His college education at Iowa State University was in Plant Pathology, Pest Management, and Agronomy. Bob has over 40 years of experience in crop consulting, farm management, research, technology and product development.
Bob is co-owner of Central Iowa Agronomy & Supply and President of Central Iowa Agronomics. He is actively involved in projects in soil remediation, making biological assessments of growing environments, developing systems to clean up food and water supplies, and doing test trials of products. Since 2003 he has traveled throughout much of South America, working with the top scientists and growers on their specific problems in crop production. Bob contributes articles to several magazines and writes a weekly column for an Iowa based Ag newspaper. He has been internationally interviewed and has appeared in several movies dealing with soil, plant, and human health. To learn more go to www.CentralIowaAg.com.
Dave Schwartz
Dave Schwartz has been in Agri-Business for 38 years and has worked at all levels of Production Ag from Retail to Basic Manufacturers to Distribution and has been fortunate to have been involved in the evolution of the modern day high yield technologies that he most enjoys in his current job as Executive Vice President of Sales for Verdesian Life Sciences for the 12 Midwest corn belt states. His major hobby is farming his farm and the family’s farms near Guthrie Center where he gets to put into practice all the techniques and technologies that he has learned and is very passionate about improving Soil Health and Water Quality on his own farm and be able to share his learnings with other growers who have those same goals. Dave is the Vice President of the Iowa Agricultural Water Alliance Business Council and also the Vice President of the Fluid Fertilizer Foundation which he enjoys learning ways to help growers and retailers seek more efficient ways to be sustainable and profitable. His talk today is about how farming sustainably can also be more profitable.
Vatché Keuftedjian
Vatche’ is a researcher and inventor. During his post graduate education in Quantum Physics, he and his team in Japan were focused to better understand the principals of nature in quantum theory. A few years later with his classmates in Germany they further studied the 2nd variable of oscillation power. Vatché, and his team in Germany, have developed a “software” to treat water. This software is “played/stored” on the carrier, the Pursanova Disk. These oscillations are emitted by Pursanova Disk, enter the liquid, travel downstream & change the behavior of the ingredients in the entire water and hydrocarbon.
Pursanova has also created water activation systems that can remove/reduce U238 and glyphosate from water. This technology is able to eliminate scaling and fouling, corrosion, algae and bacteria such as legionella, and reduces the use of chemicals in agriculture, thus reducing runoffs, improving plant health and bringing the beneficial bacteria to the land. Currently Vatché and his team are focused on researching and studying the use of frequency via ultrasound to create bioenergy for the benefit of mankind and our ecosystem by addressing the algae problems in lakes and ponds. Vatché Keuftedjian moved to Chicago from San Francisco few years ago and maintains his operations and laboratories in Germany, Japan and USA. He recently won the top technology award from International Trade Council. https://www.pursanova.com
Dr. Allan Lindsley/Ryan Riley
(Pending)
Jerry Carlson
Jerry Carlson has 35 years’ experience in researching and writing about biologically-based farming for higher profits and healthier food. Most of his current reporting appears on the www.renewablefarming.com website. It’s named after Renewable Farming LLC which his family owns. It’s run by Jerry’s son Erik and wife Jeanene, with their three sons Blake, Terry and Lane. The family manufactures several formulations of the colloidal surfactant and growth stimulant, WakeUP. In 10 years of field and lab research, the family learned how farmers can use WakeUP to amplify benefits of crop nutrients and biological products. In Jerry’s earlier ag career, he was Managing Editor of Farm Journal and co-founder of Professional Farmers of America. Jerry and his wife Jill (a teacher and book author) live on the family’s research farm near Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Dr. Rusty Rodriguez
Rusty Rodriguez obtained a PhD in Microbial Physiology from Oregon State University in 1983 followed by postdoctoral work (Cornell University) in plant pathology before overseeing research programs on plant-microbe symbiosis in academic (University of California) and government (USFWS, NBS, USGS) institutions. Currently, he holds an affiliate faculty position in Biology at the University of Washington. His research programs allowed he and his colleagues to discover that plants in nature do not adapt themselves to abiotic stresses such as drought, temperature or salinity. Instead, plants establish symbiotic associations with microscopic fungi that confer abiotic stress tolerance. This remarkable observation was the basis for developing a new seed treatment technology (BioEnsure) to mitigate impacts of climate change in agriculture by generating climate-resilient crops. In 2012, he joined Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies (AST) to commercialize symbiotic technologies for addressing real world problems and work toward a sustainable future. AST is dedicated to ensuring food security by generating climate resilient crops for both large and small land holding farmers around the globe. AST is using BioEnsure in developing and emerging countries to empower: females by training them to be seed treaters, farmers by increasing crop yields & animal fodder, and families by increasing food security & agricultural revenues.
Brad Forkner
As a Soil Structure and Nutrient Manager with Nutrient Management Specialists, I implement the systems approach to manage crops from the combine one year through safe storage the next. We discuss and implement a management plan that gets the crop planted in impeccable conditions, and then defend the yield through constant and consistent follow up. Energy products powered by live biology, and supporting a plants ever changing status between vegetative and reproductive phases, with field visits, phone contact and e-mail updates we proactively defend yield to make the most of field environments and the current year’s weather pattern. Utilizing and incorporating manure and residue management where needed into a complete cropping plan to boost efficiency, prevent a buildup of salts, heavy metals, and partially digested antibiotics, while being good stewards of the soil. This allows me to work with an exceptional group of growers who are dedicated to making the most out of every acre, every seed. Through the NMS process, we start with learning the soils in each field, utilize multiple sources and feedings of energy and biology. Then we closely monitor how the seed responds with and to the environment throughout the season. We work closely with growers to learn and utilize new methods to defend that yield starting with this year’s harvesting and residue management, and continue until next year’s crop in safely in storage.”
Through NMS, we have the opportunity to hone our farming skills and manage every acre to maximize the genetic potential of each and every seed we plant. My years in many facets across the industry have brought many mentors and experts to exchange ideas. A never ending attention to detail in my observations and by providing a second set of eyes allow me to suggest options with lead time for implementation. Bringing the resources from my Agronomy and Animal Science degrees from the University of Missouri, customers soon identify with the value I provide through our company.
Eric Massey
Eric Massey was born in Milford-Haven, Wales and at the age of 9 immigrated to the U.S. He served in the US Navy. Eric began working on his family farm after arriving in the U.S. He has always had an interest in agriculture and horticulture. He attended Olympic College, Washington State University with a focus on mycology and soil biology. He has been a student of agronomy for 38 years. Eric is a former Golf Course Superintendent with 17 years’ experience. He has worked in sales as a regional manager and territory developer since 1997. In 2005 he started selling Redox products in turf. He has experience in golf sales of Redox products from Simi Valley in the west to Medinah CC in Chicago and has also worked with agriculture and has experience in many crops from California to the Great Lakes of New York.
Kevin Kimberley
Kevin Kimberley of Kimberley Ag Consulting teaches producers how to reach ultimate yield potential through planter and field preparation. He is known for his on-farm consulting in which his clients utilize various farming techniques including strip-till, no-till, and full-tillage. He’s a master observing and understanding how tillage machines and planters work. He has been in business since 1980 and has been consulting on planters since the 1990s.
Brody Benton
Brody Benton, a graduate of Iowa State University in Ag Business & Economics, has had a 13-year career in the seed, crop protection, and fertility segments of row crop agriculture. The last few years he has conducted many independent field trials and soil fertility work utilizing the microbial teams within the Biodyne product line-up. This work has provided insight into the short and long term effects of utilizing these microbial teams to recycle residue, mineralize soil nutrients, and improve soil fertility. Brody will talk about his experiences and how utilizing Biodyne microbial teams are regenerating our soils back to the fence row.
REGISTRATION
Please register by Friday, January 17, 2020 to guarantee your meal.
Early Registration: $25.00
At the Door: $30.00
Call or text to reserve your spot:
Carol Streit: 515-231-6710
Bob Streit: 515-709-0143
Marv Mortensen: 515-370-3381
LOCATION
Briggs Woods Conference Center
2501 Briggs Woods Trail
Webster City, Iowa 50595
