Annual Meetings
2025 Meeting
- 2025 Meeting Agenda
- Introductions and Session Orientation
- The Ogallala Aquifer Program Objectives & Timeline 2025
- Teferi Tsegaye, USDA-ARS
- Crop Rotation, Tillage Systems, and Cover Crops – Will Anything Work?
- Occasional and strategic tillage effects on weeds, crop yield and soil health in dryland cropping systems
- Integrating Livestock into Traditional Wheat-Sorghum-Fallow Rotations
- Evaluating Site-specific Water Management for Sustainable Agriculture in the Southern High Plains Region
- Developing efficient production practices to optimize water use efficiency of industrial hemp
- Improving Profitability of Guar as an Alternative Crop for Profitable Dryland Production
- Spring Cover Crop Research in the Semi-arid Drylands Systems in Ogallala Aquifer Region
- Ogallala Water Conservation and Economic Analysis of Sorghum Silage Potential for Dairy Industry in Texas High Plains
- The Rural Economic Effects of Ogallala Aquifer Depletion: A Case Study in West-Central Kansas
- Cotton Water Use as Affected by Irrigation Application Method – Sprinkler vs. SDI
- Alternative Water Use Modeling for Cotton, Corn and Soybean
- Coton Production and Irrigation Management in Thermo-Limited Environments Ogallala Aquifer “Big Cotton” Program Review
- Highlights of the Kansas Cotton Project
- Impacts of Thermo-limited Environments on Cotton Productivity
- Introduction to Q-Stable
2024 Meeting
- 2024 Meeting Agenda
- 2024 Presentations
- Improving Water Productivity and New Water Management Technologies to Sustain Rural Economies
- 2024 Ogallala Aquifer Program Workshop
- Forage Sorghum Production with Limited Water
- U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef: Our regional focus on sustainable feed and forage research
- Cotton Production in Thermally Limited Regions of the Southern Great Plains: Kansas Research Updates
- Collaborative Research on Cotton Production in Thermo-limited Regions of the High Plains: Economic Team Update
- OAP Cotton “Big Project” Technology Transfer
- Big Cotton Project: Where are the (Physiology) gaps?
- Monitoring Cotton Growth and Development in the Texas Panhandle
- Panhandle Regional Water Planning Group
- Developing Efficient Production Practices to Optimize Water Use Efficiency of Industrial Hemp
- Site-specific Water Management for Sustainability
- Alternative Summer Annual Legumes
- Economic and Policy Implications of Water Withdrawals
- Technology Transfer “Across the Board”
- 2024 Ogallala Aquifer Program Workshop
2023 Meeting
2022 Meeting
2018 Meeting
2016 Meeting
2015 Annual Meeting
- 2015 Annual Meeting Agenda
- 2015 Presentations
- Introductions and Overview of the Agenda
- Developing the Kansas Water Vision
- Update on Water Policies in Texas
- Understanding Kansas Groundwater Declines
- Update on the USDA Southern Plains Climate Hub
- The State of SDI in the Southern Great Plains
- Year 1 and 2 Outcomes of the Kansas Local Enhanced Management Area (LEMA): Impact on the economics and water use
- Forecast El Nino-Southern Oscillation Phases and Best Irrigation Strategies to Increase Cotton Yield
- The Kansas Aqueduct Study
- Grain Sorghum Research and Extension Needs
- Developing and Implementing Crop Insurance that will Assist in Water Management
- Introductions and Q&A about PrePlan Solicitation
2014
Focus Meetings
- OAP Cotton Water Summit: June 2024
- Ogallala Aquifer Program Forage Meeting: Dec. 10 – 11, 2024
- Agenda – Big Forage Workshop Dec. 10 – 11, 2024 (PDF), (DOCX)
- Introductions and Session Orientation
- Conditions and Trends of the Kansas High Plains Aquifer
- Water Quantity, High Plains Aquifer in New Mexico and Texas and Water Quality, Central High Plains
- OAP Big Forage Planning Meeting Beef Industry Perspective
- Past Forage Studies and Economics in Western Kansas
- Forage Sorghum Production with Limited Water
- Forage Production for the Dairy Industry
- Summer legumes an alternative protein source for the Ogallala Aquifer Region
- Smart Forage Sorghum: Precision Sensing for Optimized Irrigation Water Management
- Identification of climate resilient alternative field and forage crops for the Southern Great Plains
- Forages and Livestock to Diversify wheat-based Cropping System
- Increasing starch digestibility of sorghum silage and HMS
- Wheat and Triticale Forage Research
- Dominant multiple tiller (mtl-D1) as a promising trait for forage sorghum
