BUSINESS MEMO: IRRIGATION CONFERENCE

More than a dozen speakers are on the agenda for the Bootheel Irrigation Conference and Trade Show on Wednesday at the Ramada Inn at Sikeston.

The daylong program, sponsored by Commercial Agricultural Program, University of Missouri, and Natural Resource Conservation Service, features sessions on irrigation methods, its effect on plant diseases, and economics of irrigation, and land-leveling costs and benefits.

The first session starts at 8 a.m., with the final session at 3:40 p.m.

Speakers include Larry Heatherly, USDA/ARS researcher from Mississippi; DeLynn Hay, Nebraska Extension; Tony Windham and Phil Tacker, both of Arkansas Extension; Kerry Harrison, Georgia Extension; Ray Lemond, Kansas Extension; and, Laura Sweets, Ray Massey, Joe Henggeler and David Reinbott, Missouri Extension.

Other speakers include Claude Phene, SDI; Jerry Funk, Netafim USA; Keith Admire and Doyle Burch, Natural Resources Conservation Services, Missouri; and, Don Pfost, University of Missouri.