Best of the Best Presentations, Dickinson 2008

• Wheat Outlook for 2008  - Jim Peterson, ND Wheat Commission

• Higher Prices, higher costs, what crop will be the most profitable - Dwight Aakre, NDSU Extension Service, Fargo

• Rotations and winter wheat - what works for western ND - Blake Vander Vorst, Ducks Unlimited, Bismarck

• N use in wheat, strategies for improving efficiencies and/or reducing costs - Dave Franzen, NDSU Extension Service, Fargo

• Fungicide use in wheat in western ND: when does it pay? - Roger Ashley, NDSU Extension Service, Dickinson

• Why do leaf rust resistant varieties become susceptible and hat is the outlook? - Marcia McMullen, NDSU Extension Service, Fargo

• Wheat insects: sawfly, stem maggot - are they on the increase, and how can they be controlled? - Jan Knodel, NDSU Extension Service, Fargo

• Variety update: HRS, durum and winter wheat - Joel Ransom, NDSU Extension Service, Fargo

• Spatially managed farms: what have we learned? - John Nowatzki, NDSU Extension Service, Fargo