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Itinerary at a Glance
Sunday, August 23 – Friday, August 28
Sunday, August 23
| 6:30 PM | Kickoff Dinner at Midnight Shift @ Cotton Court Valencia Hotel (Dutch Treat) |
Monday, August 24
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast on your own — bus leaves from the Cotton Court Hotel |
| 8:50–11:00 AM | Tour Bingham Organic Farms |
| 11:30 AM–1:45 PM | Lunch & presentations at "The Armory" |
| 2:00–3:30 PM | Peanuts and Processing Tour, IPG |
| 4:30-5:30 PM | Barker Research Farm |
| 6:30–8:30 PM | Individual cars to dinner at Escondido Grill — Lubbock, TX (sponsored by Cotton, Inc. — limited seating) |
Tuesday, August 25
| 8:00 AM | Meet the bus at the Cotton Court Hotel |
| 9:00–11:00 AM | Barry Evans Farm tour — Kress, TX |
| 12:00–2:00 PM | Lunch and TAMU AgriLife Research Station, Lubbock tour |
| 3:00–5:00 PM | Broadview Agriculture tour |
| 5:00–8:00 PM | Roundtable dinner at Vardeman Farms |
Wednesday, August 26
| 8:00 AM | Check out, breakfast on your own — depart by 8:15 AM in individual vehicles |
| 8:30–10:00 AM | TTU Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute tour |
| 11:00 AM | Drive northeast into Oklahoma |
| 4:00–6:00 PM | Guided tour of Bergen Ranch by chartered bus — 12,000 acres of regenerative grazing |
| 6:00–8:30 PM | Dinner and roundtable at Bergen Ranch with Oklahoma's federal, agency, research and industry leadership |
| 8:30 PM | Depart for The Artesian Hotel, Sulphur, OK |
Thursday, August 27
| 8:00 AM | Depart Sulphur, OK for Alva with Kent Martin — breakfast and lunch on the road |
| 1:30 PM | Arrive Alva, OK |
| 2:00–3:30 PM | NASA presentations and Q&A — Dr. Karen St. Germain and Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft |
| 3:30 PM | Farm tour and research farm north of Dacoma, OK, with area farmers and the NASA team |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| 8:00 PM | Travel to Hutchinson, KS — overnight at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1715 N Waldron St. |
Friday, August 28
| 8:00 AM | Load bus at the Hilton Garden Inn in Hutchinson |
| 8:10 AM | Depart for Flickner Innovation Farm |
| 8:45 AM | Field tour west of Moundridge — tech demo, combine rides, soil pit, and more |
| 11:30 AM | Depart for the Hilton Garden Inn |
| 12:10 PM | Return to the Hilton Garden Inn |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch and Learn at the Kansas Cosmosphere — lunch, poster presentations, and time to explore the facilities |
| 3:00 PM | Event concludes |