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Crop Tours Highlight Carrington Research Extension Center Field Day on July 15

The North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center annual field day will be held Tuesday, July 15.

Two crop tours will be conducted during the event for participants to view research trials and receive current production information. Highlighted will be variety performance, production management and opportunities of selected crops. Also discussed will be crop pest management, soil management and plant nutrition.

The morning tour will begin at 9:30. The tour will include a review of spring wheat and barley cultivars by NDSU plant breeders Mohamed Mergoum and Richard Horsley. Also, corn and soybean production issues will be reviewed by NDSU Extension agronomists Joel Ransom and Greg Endres. In addition, biofuel opportunities will be discussed by Cole Gustafson, NDSU biofuels economist. DoKyoung Lee, NDSU research agronomist, will do a presentation on biomass for cellulosic biofuels.

Following a noon lunch, tour participants will be able to attend the second crop tour starting at 1 p.m. Jan Knodel, NDSU Extension entomologist, will discuss management of soybean aphids and sunflower seed insects. Marcia McMullen and Sam Markell, NDSU Extension plant pathologists, will review small-grain diseases, fungicide strategies and the threat of row crop diseases this season. Richard Zollinger and Kirk Howatt, NDSU weed scientists, will discuss this season’s weed management challenges and issues, including herbicide injury and tank mixtures for glyphosate in Roundup Ready corn and soybeans.

Also, during the afternoon tour, participants will view a soil pit and hear a discussion by Hal Weiser, Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientist, on the impact of below-ground factors that affect crop production.

Lee, Endres, Paul Hendrickson and Ron Weiderholt, CREC agronomists, will review plant nutrition research and recommendations that include nitrogen and phosphorus rates and placement and the use of manure to reduce fertilizer costs.

For more information, contact the Carrington REC at (701) 652-2951 or check its Web site at http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/.

NDSU Agriculture Communication

Source:	Greg Endres, (701) 652-2951, gregory.endres@ndsu.edu
Editor:	Rich Mattern, (701) 231-6136, richard.mattern@ndsu.edu

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