Ag PhD Field Day – July 27, 2012 at the Hefty Farm

8:00 – 8:30 am – Terry Wieting – Grain Marketing Talk in the Lunch Tent

8:00 – 11:00 am – Case I-H Ride & Drive area and Tiling Demos are open.

8:00 – 8:45 am – Brian Hefty will be at Tiling Demo area.
8:00 – 8:45 am – Darren Hefty will be at the Case I-H Ride & Drive area.

9:00 – 9:20 am – Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the western one-third of the plots
Refreshments at tents and the Case I-H Ride & Drive area.

9:40 – 10:00 am – Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the middle one-third of the plots
10:20 – 10:40 am – Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the eastern one-third of the plots

11:00 am – National anthem sung by the 2011 Miss America, Teresa Scanlan at FMC Tent
11:05 am – Noon – Lunch (sponsored by Case IH & Titan Machinery)

11:30 – 11:40 am – General Wesley Clark speaks at Lunch Tent. Teresa Scanlan speaks at Lunch Shed.
11:50 am – Noon – Teresa Scanlan speaks at Lunch Tent.  General Wesley Clark speaks at Lunch Shed.

12:30 pm – 60 Minute Classes begin:
At Lunch Tent – Drainage Lawyer John Kolb
At BASF Tent – Darren Hefty interviews Corn Yield Champion David Hula
At Swenson Investments Tent – Estate Planning
At Soil-Max Tent – Gold Digger/Intellislope hardware/software updates
At AGPS Tent – AGPS software updates
At Trimble Tent – Trimble software updates
At Raven Tent – Raven’s new product releases and product updates
At Ag Leader Tent – Ag Leader’s new product releases and product updates
At large Tent in Tiling Area – Brian Hefty’s Tile Design Class

2:00 pm – 60 Minute Classes repeat

3:00 – 7:00 pm – Tiling Demos and Case I-H Ride & Drive areas are open

3:30 – 3:50 pm – Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the western one-third of the plots
4:10 – 4:30 pm – Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the middle one-third of the plots
4:50 – 5:10 pm – Brian & Darren give their evaluations on the eastern one-third of the plots

5:10 – 5:30 pm – Brian & Darren talk at the Tiling Demo area

Supper (sponsored by Monsanto) served from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

7 pm – Field Day concludes