Crop Weather & Market Outlook meetings in Central Iowa

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Mahaska County – Crop and livestock producers can learn about issues and strategies to prepare for fall by attending free-to-the public informational meetings hosted by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

Two speakers will discuss crop weather and the market outlook:
Don Roose, president and CEO of U.S. Commodities, Inc., helps create risk management programs for grain elevators, cattle and hog feedlots, producers, manufacturers and processors. Don has five decades of risk management experience and grew up on a grain and livestock farm operation.

Dr. Dennis Todey, state and extension climatologist for South Dakota State University, has conducted research on long term climate trends and climate-yield relationships throughout the Midwest. He is a frequent speaker on long range outlooks, climate trends and general climate, variability and change information.

Meeting dates include:
• June 24, at 7 p.m. in Ogden at the Community Center
• June 25, at 9 a.m. in Nevada at the Story County Extension Office
• June 25, at 7 p.m. in Brooklyn at the Manatt Community Center
• June 26, at 9 a.m. near Oskaloosa at the Nelson Pioneer Farm and Museum
• June 26, at 7 p.m. in Ankeny DMACC, Building 6 Auditorium

Sponsors include Cargill, Heartland Cooperative, Iowa Soybean Association, Key Cooperative and West Central.

For questions about these meetings, please contact your county Extension office.