Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

5 February 2019
Business Meeting

Presiding:  2018 University chair, Ryan Higginbotham, Washington State University

Debra Ahrent presented the Treasurer’s Report.
Darin Joos, University of Illinois, received the 2018 SCC-33 Service Award.

2019 SCC-33 chairs:
Cam Kenimer, University of Kentucky
Doug Warters, Kincaid, Inc.

 2019 Meeting Discussion: A suggestion was made to schedule SCC-33 in conjunction with another meeting which may help increase attendance by industry and public institution representatives. Commodity Classic and ASA conventions were suggested. All agreed having the meeting during the first week of February was more important and/or convenient.

This spring, the new chairs will email a survey asking for topic/speaker ideas and potential locations for the 2019 meeting. Sites include: Key Largo, FL; Savannah, GA; Jekyll Island, GA; Hilton Head, NC; Charleston, SC; Fort Myers, FL.
Adjourn

In the recent meeting of the SCC-33 group a number of informative presentations were given.  With the growing interest in using drone technology a presentation was given by Darin Eisinger, North Dakota State University, on the use of drone technology in variety testing programs.  The is current technology that many are considering adopting for their respective programs.  Several other presentations were given on the latest technology available from industry for use in variety testing programs.  These presentations included Kincaid Equipment Manufacturing, Doug Warters; HarvestMaster, Evan Tortel; ARM Software, Kyle Kepner, Gylling Data Management; Wintersteiger, Brandon Jorgensen; Zurn Harvesting, Michael Bateman;

Another topic of discussion centered around data management and analysis.  These presentations included LSD Errors, Spatial Analysis, Jerry Johnson, Colorado State University; AGROBASE software, Ryan Higginbotham, Washington State University; A group discussion on Data Presentation/Communication Methods also took place.  Additionally a presentation on Effective Protocols for Variety Trial Field Tours was given by Bill Bruening, University of Kentucky. A presentation on  Industry Percpectives, was given by  Monty Malone, Bayer CropScience;

A number of state programs were discussed including Clemson OVT Program, Brad Stancil, Clemson University and NCSU Program Overview
Ryan Heiniger, North Carolina State University.