<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">will be held at the Reitz Union on the campus of the University of Florida Sunday April 26 through Tuesday April 28, 2020. This conference is a continuation and rebirth of the Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, held for 30 years at Kansas State University until 2017. The scope is expanded to include Natural Resources.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">Highlights of the conference are an all-day Sunday workshop on Practical Bayesian Analysis, led by Dr. Fang Chen from the SAS Institute. Each of the seven breakout session will be begin with a 30-min lecture by an invited speaker. Topics range from using an assembled database to aid in planning experiments (Casler) to using all available data to produce official NASS estimates (Young).</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">A student oral and poster presentation with prizes awarded for the best three presentations in each category will be part of the conference as well.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">For further details and instruction on how to submit an abstract, please click on the following link</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><a href="https://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/applied-stats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.02);color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">------------------------------</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">Edzard van Santen</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">Professor and Director</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">University of Florida IFAS Statistical Consulting Unit</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.02)">------------------------------</span>  <br></div>