TAPS to host Learn, Launch, Interact Event

The University of Nebraska Testing Ag Performance Solutions program, North Platte, Nebraska, will start its sixth year with its Learn, Launch, Interact Event held in person at Ward Laboratories in Kearney, Nebraska, at 5 p.m. CST March 15.

The free, open-to-the-public event will feature a tour of Ward Laboratories, where thousands of samples like soil, water and plants are handled. During the tour, Ray Ward, PhD, will discuss the use of lab analysis as an implement during moments of high input costs.

The TAPS event will also include the launch of upcoming farm management competitions and interactions between technology partners, event participants and facilitators.

Concluding the event will be the TAPS Launch, marking the commencement of a new TAPS competition season.

Learn, Launch, Interact serves as an opportunity for competitors to become acclimated with the TAPS website, receive their competition credentials, learn to view and access their farm pages, and gain more information on each of the farm decisions they will be making.

The 2022 TAPS program will offer sprinkler corn, subsurface drip-irrigated corn and sorghum competitions at the West Central Research, Extension and Education Center in North Platte.

Those in attendance will also be able to meet with company representatives and learn about new technology offered to TAPS competitors as they go head-to-head to create the most profitable, efficient and highest yielding farm.

Shortly after the event, teams will make their competition decisions by deciding on their irrigation tool, crop insurance, hybrid and seeding rate. Spanning the growing season, participants will manage nitrogen and irrigation on their plots, all while marketing their grain until the end of November.

Those interested in attending must register on TAPS’ website by March 8.