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Meet The Speaker: Matt Miles
Matt Miles, alongside his wife, son and daughter-in-law farm over 12,000 acres of farmland in the Arkansas Delta.  Matt began his...
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Meet The Speaker: Amanda Mathis
Amanda Mathis began volunteering with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in 2004 and quickly learned the agency was a perfect...
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Meet The Speaker: Dr. Paul Counce
Dr. Paul Counce is a professor in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences and Rice Research and Extension Center at the...
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Meet The Speaker: Dean Wall
Dean Wall has been a grain farmer in Greene County, Arkansas for 40 years. He is a graduate of Arkansas State University (Agricultural...
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Dec 29, 20241 min read
Meet The Speaker: Jerry Don Clark
Jerry Don Clark is a fourth generation rice and soybean farmer. He owns and operates a 2,500 acre farm in the Otwell/Valley View area...
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Dec 29, 20242 min read
Meet The Speaker: Mike Clay
Mr. Mike Clay serves as the Memphis District’s Chief of the Hydraulics & Hydrology Branch. In this role, he serves as consultant and...
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Dec 20, 20241 min read
Meet The Speaker: Michael Klamm
Michael Klamm serves as the Deputy Regional Director for the Delta Region, encompassing Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, with the...
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Dec 20, 20241 min read
Meet The Speaker: Sandi Rose
Sandi Rose has worked at the Arkansas chapter of The Nature Conservancy for five years. She currently works as the Program Manager for...
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Dec 9, 20241 min read
2025 ASWEC Online Registration
Online registration is now available for the 2025 Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference and Irrigation EXPO -...
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Nov 5, 20241 min read
Save the Date - ASWEC Returns in 2025
This year's Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference and Irrigation EXPO will be held in Centennial Hall at the Arkansas State...
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Jan 1, 20247 min read
Meet the speakers for the 2024 Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference and Irrigation EXPO
We are so excited to introduce some of our speakers for the 26th annual Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference and Irrigation EXPO!...
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Sep 26, 20231 min read
We're Back!
The Arkansas Soil & Water Education Conference and Irrigation EXPO will be held at the First National Bank Arena in Jonesboro, Arkansas,...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Chris Colclasure
Chris Colclasure is the Director of the Natural Resources Division of the Arkansas Department of Agriculture. A position he has held since...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Joel Riley
Joel Riley has been working for the USACE Memphis District Hydraulics and Hydrology Branch since 2020. He graduated with a Civil...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Dr. Laura Ruhl-Whittle
Dr. Laura Ruhl-Whittle grew up in Monroe, Louisiana, and later moved to Ft. Myers, Florida. She received a BS and MS in Geological...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Amanda Mathis
Amanda Mathis grew up on a cattle operation in northwest Arkansas, where her passion for agriculture began early in life. She boasts a...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Dr. Benjamine Runkle
Dr. Benjamine Runkle is an associate professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He started this...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Catherine Janasie
Catherine M. Janasie is Research Counsel II (Sr.) with the National Sea Grant Law Center (NSGLC) at The University of Mississippi School...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet our 2023 Speaker: Dr. Shannon Speir
Dr. Shannon Speir is the Assistant Professor of Water Quality in the Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences at the...
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Jan 9, 20231 min read
Meet Our 2023 Speaker: Dr. Chris Delhom
Dr. Chris Delhom is a Research Engineer and Acting Research Leader with the Cotton Structure and Quality Research Unit of the USDA...
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Dec 5, 20221 min read
ASWEC will be back in-person in 2023
We are proud to announce that our 25th annual Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference and Expo will be held in-person on January 25,...
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Dec 17, 20212 min read
Meet our 2022 Speaker: Jennifer James
Jennifer James is a fourth-generation rice, soybean and corn farmer from Newport, Arkansas. She is part owner of H&J Land Company, a...
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Dec 17, 20211 min read
Meet our 2022 Speaker: Dr. Joe Massey
Dr. Joe Massey is a research agronomist with the USDA ARS - Jonesboro. Most of his work is farm-based and designed to help sustain water...
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Dec 17, 20211 min read
Meet our 2022 Speaker: Clay Smith
Clay Smith currently serves on boards for the Greene County Farm Bureau and Greene County Conservation District. He is from Walcott,...
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Dec 17, 20211 min read
Meet our 2022 Speaker: Jan Yingling
Jan Yingling is a University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Agent in White County. She has worked with Brandon Cain to enter the Most...
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Dec 17, 20211 min read
Meet our 2022 Speaker: Brandon Cain
Brandon Cain is a North Central Arkansas farmer from White County that has been using IWM techniques like computerized hole design and...
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Oct 16, 20211 min read
2022 Conference Season is Here!
The virtual 24th annual Arkansas Soil and Water Education Conference & Expo will officially be on January 26, 2022. Due to COVID-19, our...
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Jan 26, 20211 min read
Meet The Speaker: Richard Pickett
Richard Pickett is a small business owner and accelerated master’s student at Arkansas State University. Richard Pickett was raised in...
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Jan 18, 20211 min read
Meet The Speaker: Dr. James Rigby
Dr. Rigby is a Research Hydrologist and Acting Branch Chief with the Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center. Dr. Rigby has served as...
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Jan 18, 20211 min read
Announcement - Speaker Change
Dr. Jeannie Barlow will be unable to speak at the 23rd annual Arkansas Soil & Water Education Conference this year. Dr. James Rigby will...
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Jan 7, 20211 min read
Meet the Speaker: Adam Chappell
Adam Chappell farms 8,000 acres in northeast Arkansas growing corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and a mix of small grains. Along with his...
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Jan 7, 20211 min read
Meet The Speaker: Dr. Jeannie Barlow
Dr. Jeannie Barlow, Deputy Director U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center Jackson, Mississippi Jeannie...
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Nov 15, 20201 min read
SAVE THE DATE! ASWEC is Going Virtual!
The 23rd annual Arkansas Soil & Water Education Conference (ASWEC) is back this year with a new twist. This years conference will be the...
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