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7:00am CST

Breakfast, Registration Opens Royale Room

8:00am CST

Welcome and Awards Ceremony Great Hall

8:30am CST

Keynote: Hold Hope Close, But Know it is Not a Strategy Great HallGary Matteson

10:00am CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

10:30am CST

Kid's Program: 4H Corn Babies and Cookie Soil Cups Mezzanine 1 Dicamba Conversation: Exploring What's Needed to Support Organic Farmers Frontier RoomWilla Childress • John Fagan • Ryan Schmid Farming Practices to Support Pollinators and Beneficial Insects Royale RoomKarin Jokela Oats Variety Trial and Stress Management Embassy AMelanie Caffe-Treml • Meg Moynihan Regional Climate Considerations for Seed Production Embassy BKoby Hagen Stress: How to Know If It Is Affecting Me and Easy Techniques to Deal With It Prairie RoomMaggie Peterson

11:30am CST

Lunch Buffet Great Hall

1:30pm CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

2:00pm CST

Kid's Program: River Keepers Crime Lab Mezzanine 2 Cover Crops in Established Vegetables and Across the Northern Plains Embassy ADana Jokela • Abbey Wick Dig into Data: Who Is on Your Side of the Desk Royale RoomCheryl Landsem Growing Food & Environmental Health: Current Projects at Blue Dasher Farm Prairie RoomRyan Schmid Organic Agriculture Research at NDSU Frontier RoomJesse Puka-Beals • Greta Gramig Should Farmers be Paid as Contractors for Regrowing Healthy Topsoil? Embassy BDidi Pershouse

3:00pm CST

Exhibitor Hall Harvest Hall

4:00pm CST

Glyphosate Update: Science, Legal Developments and Market Impacts Royale RoomJohn Fagan Growing Cash Flow Frontier RoomGary Matteson Livestock as a Soil Health Partner Embassy AErin & Drew Gaugler • Douglas Landblom • Mike Ostlie Solar Energy on the Farm Embassy BCharlie Ricketts Weed Control in Organic Systems Prairie RoomCharlie Johnson • Mark Askegaard

5:30pm CST

Cash Bar Great Hall

6:00pm CST

Banquet Dinner Great Hall

7:30pm CST

Play: Map of My Kingdom Royale RoomMary Swander