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.