It’s here! Hot off the press and ready for reading, Volume 60 of the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center’s (CREC) Annual Report is packed full of information for you. Each year, 300+ research trials along with several tours and demonstrations are conducted at the CREC. You can find a pdf version of the report here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/news/2019-crec-annual-report-of-research-and-extension. If you prefer a hard-copy please let us know and we’ll get you one.

While all of the activities we do are not covered in this report there is something for everyone. Following you will find a few quick links to get you started. Please note the index on page one which will lead you to specific reports.

• Livestock
  • Expanded bunk management and distillers grains research that will aide in understanding the links between feedlot management, distiller’s grains inclusion, and incidence of Polioencephalomalacia (PEM) in feedlot cattle.
    • Find related report on page 33 or here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/documents/livestockrd/2019-docs/impacts-of-inclusion-of-either-25-or-50.pdf/view.
  • Mid-winter pen cleaning on feedlot performance and carcass characteristics of steers.
    • Find the report on page 30 or here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/documents/livestockrd/2019-docs/effects-of-pen-cleaning-on-feedlot-performance-and.pdf/view.

Chopping corn at the CREC, 2019.

• Northern Hardy Fruit Project
  • The fruit and berry project continues to serve a broadened constituency as rural and urban homeowners alike contact the Center’s project leader for information on fruit production and related horticultural issues.
    • Find related report on page 27 or here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/northern-hardy-fruit-evaluation-project/fruit-project-results.

Foundation seed ready for load out.

• Agronomy
  • Intercropping studies were conducted for pea/canola, flax/chickpea, and corn silage companions as a way to increase net productivity per acre. In each case, treatment combinations were discovered that result in total yields higher than a single crop.
    • Find the report on page 25 or here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/documents/agronomyrd/docs-2019/corn-silage-intercropping-summary.pdf/view.
  • Fertility studies confirmed that planting date is more important to soybean yields than phosphorus fertilization in North Dakota, with the highest probability of producing greater yields from early planting (first two weeks in May) than the following two weeks (when majority farmers are able to plant), or in June, when yields are the lowest. There was not convincing evidence of yield improvement from phosphorus application when planting was in early spring than later.
    • Find the report on page 9 or here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/documents/agronomyrd/docs-2019/2019-effect-of-phosphorus-fertilization-of-soybeans-at-three-planting-dates/view.
  • A new winter rye variety, ND Gardner, was released by the NDSU Agricultural Experiment Station in 2019. This variety was developed at the CREC and is intended to be used mainly for the rapidly growing cover crop market.
    • Find more information here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/center-points/nd-gardner-winter-rye-a-new-release.
  • An NDSU Extension publication was written in 2019 that provides a summary of black and navy bean response to row spacing and plant population from trials conducted from 2014 through 2018.
    • Find the publication here: https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/crops/black-and-navy-bean-response-to-row-spacing-and-plant-population-in-eastern-north-dakota.

There are many reports not listed above so make sure you check out the entire publication. A listing of Agronomic Research Trials starts on page 41 and Crop Variety Comparison Data starts on page 50. Didn’t find something you were specifically looking for? Let us know by emailing NDSU.Carrington.REC1@ndsu.edu or calling 701-652-2951. - CREC Staff