Williston Research Extension Center Field Days to be Virtual
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This year’s North Dakota State University Williston Research Extension Center (WREC) dryland and irrigated field days will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Producers and others will be able view the center researchers’ work by watching short prerecorded videos shot on location. The videos will be available starting July 8 at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/willistonrec.
Topics for this year’s field day and the presenters are:
- Irrigation in western North Dakota - Tyler Tjelde, WREC irrigation agronomist
- Intercropping peas/canola and chickpeas/flax - Justin Jacobs, WREC irrigation research specialist
- Pipeline Reclamation Project - Meridith Miller, WREC dryland research specialist, and Nick Birkhimer, NDSU graduate research assistant
- Application of unmanned aircraft systems in small plot experiments - Gautam Pradhan, WREC dryland agronomist
- Dryland variety trials - Cameron Wahlstrom, WREC dryland research specialist
- Ascochyta blight on chickpeas - Audrey Kalil, WREC plant pathologist
- Fusarium root rot - Taheni Gargouri-Jbir, WREC plant pathology research specialist
- WREC horticulture garden - Kyla Splichal, WREC horticulture research specialist
- Kernza: a new dual-use crop for the MonDak region or intercropping chickpeas and flax - Clair Keene, WREC Extension cropping systems specialist
- WREC foundation seed program - Kyle Dragseth, WREC foundation seed/farm manager
- WREC foundation seed conditioning facility update - Jerry Bergman, WREC director, and Tom Wheeler, WREC-EARC (Montana State University’s Eastern Agricultural Research Center) Joint Advisory Board chairman
For more information, contact Kelly Stehr at 701-774-4315 or kelly.stehr@ndsu.edu.
NDSU Agriculture Communication - June 23, 2020
Source: | Kelly Stehr, 701-774-4315, kelly.stehr@ndsu.edu |
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Editor: | Ellen Crawford, 701-231-5391, ellen.crawford@ndsu.edu |