2014 National Variety Testing Meeting
February 10-12, 2014
Holiday Inn Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Monday, February 105:00 – 7:00 pm / Hotel Lobby / Registration/Meet and Greet
Tuesday, February 11
7:00 – 8:00 am / Breakfast / Provided – Sky Line Atrium
Meeting Agenda
8:00am / Welcome and Introductions / Steve Sick and Ronnie Schnell
8:30 am / Oklahoma Wheat Variety Testing: It's two crops in one! / Dr. Jeff Edwards
9:00 am / Sorghum Ratoon Cropping / Dr. Rick Mascagni
9:30 am / Grain Legume Variety Evaluation on the Palouse: 20 years of Pulse Crop Extension / Stephen Guy
10:00-10:30 am / Break
10:30 am / Overview of the Georgia Statewide Variety Testing Program / John D Gassett
11:00 am / Can Publicly Developed Soybean Varieties Compete / Dr. Grover Shannon
11:30 am / Survey of Variety Testing Procedures in the Southern Region / Joshua Still
12:00 – 1:00 pm / Lunch / Provided- Sky Line Atrium
1:00 pm / Update: Texas Corn Producers / David Gibson
1:30 pm / ALMACO - New Research Equipment Technologies / Chris McKone
2:30 pm / Data Management for Variety Testing Programs / Dr. Ronnie Schnell
3:00 – 3:30 pm / Break
3:30 pm / Choosing Testing Locations Based on Genetic Variance Expression / Dr. Fred Allen
4:00 pm / Variety Testing Using Spatial Analysis
4:30 pm / Business Meeting
5:00 pm / Adjourn
Wednesday, February 12 / Checkout/Travel Day
Location and Lodging:
Holiday Inn Riverwalk
217 N. St. Mary's St.
San Antonio, Texas 78205
Phone 210-224-2500 Fax 210-226-0154
Registration Information:
SCC33 Annual Meeting
Presenters
Oklahoma Wheat Variety Testing: It's two crops in one!
Dr. Jeff Edwards, Small Grains Extension Specialist, Oklahoma State University
Sorghum Ratoon Cropping
Dr. Rick Mascagni, Professor/Feed Grain Agronomist, Northeast Research Station, Louisiana State University
Grain Legume Variety Evaluation on the Palouse: 20 years of Pulse Crop Extension
Stephen Guy, Extension Agronomist, Washington State University
Overview of the Georgia Statewide Variety Testing Program
John D Gassett, Program Director, Statewide Variety Testing Program, University of Georgia
Can Publicly Developed Soybean Varieties Compete
Dr. Grover Shannon, Professor, Soybean Breeding and Genetics, Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri
Survey of Variety Testing Procedures in the Southern Region
Joshua Still, Program Technician II, Arkansas Crop Variety Improvement Program, University of Arkansas
Update: Texas Corn Producers
David Gibson, Texas Corn Producers
New Research Equipment Technologies
Todd Vincent, Sales Manager, ALMACO
Data Management for Variety Testing Programs
Dr. Ronnie Schnell, Cropping Systems Specialist, Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Choosing Testing Locations Based on Genetic Variance Expression
Dr. Fred Allen, Professor & Coordinator, Agronomic Crop Variety Testing, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee
Variety Testing Using Spatial Analysis