By Angie Gradiz and Nicolle Ritchie
Michigan State University Extension and Purdue University Extension are pleased to host the Great Lakes Field Crops Irrigation Meeting on Feb. 25, 2026, formerly known as the Michiana Irrigated Corn and Soybean Conference. The meeting will address water use and its effect on nutrient, weed and disease management in corn and soybeans for growers around the Michigan-Indiana state line. The conference returns to the Blue Gate Restaurant, 195 N Van Buren St. Shipshewana, IN, with the famous Blue Gate family-style lunch you’ve come to know and love.
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Registration will open at 8:30 a.m., and the conference will conclude at 4 p.m. Michigan attendees can earn three restricted use pesticide (RUP) credits and 4.5 continuing education units (1 NM, 1.5 SW, 1.5 PM, 1 PD). Indiana attendees can earn continuing certification hours (CCH) (Cat 1, Cat 14, RT) and private applicator recertification program (PARP) credits.
Source : msu.edu