Ag Talk Tuesday
Ag Talk Tuesdays are virtual sessions about agriculture with University of Idaho professionals and peers to discuss current crop issues and timely topics as the field season progresses.
Held the first and third Tuesday from May through August via Zoom (registration required).
2025 Schedule | 11 a.m. to noon Mountain Time
Every session begins with crop updates, where U of I personnel and attendees are invited to provide the group with updates of current season crop issues. Featured topics and guest speakers follow the round-table crop updates.
Topics and speakers to be confirmed prior to posting.
- May 6 — Water update; speaker Keith Esplin, executive director of Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Recharge and Eastern Idaho Water Rights Coalition, host Doug Finkelnburg
- May 20 — Do-It-Yourself online tools and approaches to set up and evaluate on-farm trials with satellite imagery; speaker Erin Books, U of I professor and ag engineer; host Doug Finkelnburg
- June 3 — Topic to be determined; host Juliet Marshall
- June 17 — Showcasing J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean Michael Parrella, a look at his career at U of I; speaker Dean Michael Parrella, host Juliet Marshall
- July 1 — Remote sensing and weed seed banks; speaker Joaquin Casanova, research engineer with the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s Northwest Sustainable Agroecosystems Research Unit in Pullman, Washington, host Kasia Duellman
- July 15 — Creating beneficial arthropod habitats on farms; speakers Brad Johnson and Blake Mathews of The Nature Conservancy, host Juliet Marshall
- Aug. 5 — Topic to be determined; host Kasia Duellman
- Aug. 19 — Idaho crop profitability outlook; speaker Patrick Hatzenbuehler, U of I associate professor and Extension specialist of crop economics, host Juliet Marshall
Ag Talk Report newsletter
- October 2024 pdf
- September 2023 pdf
- October 2022 pdf
- June 2022 pdf
- September 2021 pdf
- June 2021 pdf
