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Answer Plot 2025
August 21, 2025
What is Answer Plot?
The Answer Plot at Centra Sota's Santiago location offers a first-hand look at how different products and techniques impact the crop. We also feature a section focused on technology and innovation. This is a perfect opportunity for students interested in learning more about a career in agriculture.
You'll find a variety of vendors, equipment, and information from experts on a variety of topics including equipment conservation practices, cover crops, and more. You can choose to start at any station, then rotate until you've had a chance to visit them all.
Register to Attend 2025 Event
2025 Schedule of Events
9:00-9:30am Registration, coffee & rolls
9:30-10:05am Rotation 1
10:10-10:45am Rotation 2
10:50-11:25am Rotation 3
11:30-12:05am Rotation 4
12:10-1:10pm Lunch
You'll have time to visit 4 of the 6 stations, so pick the ones most important to you!
Location:
Centra Sota Cooperative
2168 165th Ave
Santiago, MN 55377
2025 Station Topics & Speakers
Station 1: Fertility
Learn about crop fertility including strip till, banding, starters and manures as well as foliar uptake and plant needs throughout the growing season.
Station 2: Disease
Focusing on tar spot, white mold and sudden death syndrome. What are the causes, how to scout and what can be done.
Station 3: Nitrogen Management
Understand the nitrogen cycle, forms of nitrogen, timing as well as stabilizers and how they fit into a production plan.
Station 4: Alternative Crops
Discover more on alfalfa, cover cropping systems, benefits, challenges, management strategies and opportunities with on farm programs including cost share.
Station 5: Biologicals
Diving into the world of growth regulators, formulations, when, where and how to use in a corn and soybean world that has a positive ROI.
Station 6: Seed Update
Seed traits, where are we going? Sorting through the options and understanding where the best use of traits fit.