{"id":102958,"date":"2017-10-31T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lewis-arriola-farm-conference-will-focus-on-profitability\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:22:10","slug":"lewis-arriola-farm-conference-will-focus-on-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/lewis-arriola-farm-conference-will-focus-on-profitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewis-Arriola farm conference will focus on profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Farmers
Farmers discuss the trademarked Dragon-Line irrigation system during an experiment in Pleasant View that combined drip irrigation with center pivots.<\/span>Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The third annual Southwest Agricultural Seminar will take place Nov. 18 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lewis-Arriola Community Center, 21203 Road S.<\/p>\n

The event is sponsored by High Desert Conservation<\/a>. This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s topic is farm profitability.<\/p>\n

The keynote speaker is Dan Buerkle, a dryland farmer in a region of Montana that receives only 14 inches of precipitation per year, similar to this region.<\/p>\n

He has been on the forefront of sustainable agronomic practices, successfully utilizing no-till, continuous cropping and diversification of crops to preserve soil health and farm profitability. Learn how Buerkle converted his marginal dryland farm operation into a profitable business.<\/p>\n

Guest speaker Dan Hobbs, having participated in many startups, will speak about how producer cooperatives can facilitate the success of smaller farms.<\/p>\n

Shawn Archibeque, an animal scientist from Colorado State University, will present the economies of adding cattle to a crop production farm. And farmer Brian Wilson and Travis Custer will discuss the Dragon-Line drip irrigation trial taking place in Pleasant View. The trademarked system combines drip irrigation with center pivots.<\/p>\n

There also will be a panel discussion featuring local farmers sharing experiences and innovative practices, including no-till planting. There will be a discussion of organic field crop production and marketing, and the CSU Southwest Colorado Research Center<\/a> will present an update on its cover crops study.<\/p>\n

The seminar costs $10 and lunch will be served. Please RSVP by Nov. 16 by calling Kathryn at 970-529-8368.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No-till, organic, and a center-pivot drip system also on agenda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1737,281,21,44,13,2049],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-agricultural-research-and-technology","tag-agriculture","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-lewis"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102958"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}