May 14, 2026, Thursday
8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
Prairie View United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
28309 Sunny Brook RD, Smithwick, SD
Schedule
8:30 – Welcome – Introductions –
8:45 – Invasive Weed Identification and Look-A-Likes – What should we be chasing? Nina Steinmetz, FRC W/P Supervisor and Telca Paprocki, BGNGL Field Specialist
9:15 – Diversity in the Pasture – Kaylee Wheeler, SDSU Extension Range Field Specialist Making a Soil Better – Jerry Wyett, FRC Landowner
Water break
10:15 – Native and Invasive Grass Identification – If it is green should we let it grow Cheatgrass/Medusa Head/Ventenata – Rejuvra Herbicide –Bayer – Jarrod Hossfeld
11:00 – How, where and when… do we get it to grow – Milbow Seed Folders
11:15 – Creepy , Crawly, and Fliers – Patrick Wagner, Entomology Field Specialist, SDSU Extension
11:45 – Top 10 Tree Questions – Dave Hettick, Retired State Forester
12:15 – Lunch – Wimpys, chips, salad – Jill’s Sweet treats!
12:45 – Let’s Go See What We Can See -Walk in the Pasture
1:30 – Deer Protections – FR County Conservation District
1:45 – Technology that Helps –Weed Id Apps / Land Pictures
2:30 – Reading a Herbicide Label /Spray Label– Top 10 Look and finds Batch Mixes – Calibrations
3:00 – Ready, Set, GO – Are YOU Ready? – Dar Coy, FR Emergency Management
Additional Information – Lunch
Lunch will be served. RSVP is requested to the Fall River Weed & Pest 605-745-5047, or the Fall River Extension 605-745-5133.
