General Session A – Colorado Water – A Period of Change – Jim Hall, Colorado State Engineers Office

General Session B – The Climate of the Central Great Plains: We Love It, We Hate It, but We’ve got to Live with It  -- Nolan Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist       

Technical Session 1 – Waste Management                                                                                       

   Manure Management on Irrigated Cropland – Jessica Davis, Colorado State University         

   Liquid Applications in Irrigation – Bill Kranz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

   Using an Integrated Approach to Utilizing Center Pivots for Livestock Waste Management  - Jake LaRue, Valmont Industries

Technical Session 2 – Limited Irrigation – Crop Management                                           

   Strategies for Reducing Consumptive Use of Alfalfa – Neil Hansen, Colorado State University

   Oilseed Productivity under Varying Water Availability – David Nielsen, USDA-ARS-Akron          

Technical Session 3 – Limited Irrigation – Cropping Practices and Rotations      

   Crop Rotations with Deficit Irrigation – Norm Klocke, Kansas State University

   Colorado Research in Limited Irrigation – Joel Schneekloth, Colorado State University

   Limited Irrigation No-till  Demonstration for the Pumpkin Creek Watershed – Gary Hergert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Technical Session 4 – System Conversions                                                                                       

   SDI – Bill Carroll, Toro Agricultural Irrigation

   Considerations When Converting from Surface to Mechanical Move Irrigation  – Jake LaRue, Valmont Industries

   2008 Irrigation Economics: Comparing Center Pivot Sprinkler and SDI Systems – Danny Rogers, Kansas State University

Technical Session 5 – Residue Management                                                                                    

   Crop Residue and Evapotranspiration  – Norm Klocke, Kansas State University

   Crop Residue and Soil Water – David Nielsen, USDA-ARS-Akron          

   Effect of Tillage Practices and Limited Irrigation on Corn Production – Freddie Lamm, Kansas State University

Technical Session 6 – Salinity Management                                                                                      

   Salinity in the South Platte Basin – Alan Halley, NCWCD

   Salinity in the Arkansas Valley – Lorenz Sutherland, USDA-NRCS

   Irrigation Water Quality and Salinity Management  – Troy Bauder, Colorado State University

Technical Session 7 – ET and Irrigation Scheduling                        

   CoAgMet and Climatic Based Scheduling – Nolan Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist                 

   Northern Water Efforts to Improve Irrigation Scheduling Practices – Mark Crookston, NCWCD                

   New Trends in Irrigation Scheduling, Tom Trout, USDA-ARS-Fort Collins                    

Technical Session 8 – Water Allocation                               

   Colorado Crop Water Allocation Tool – James Prichett, Colorado State University 

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