Field Day
Welcome from NDSU President Dean Bresciani
Welcome from NDSU Vice President for Agricultural Affairs Greg Lardy
Mark Birdsall SBARE Welcome
Dry Bean Row Spacing - Michael Wunsch, Plant Pathologist
Fungicide Timing - Michael Wunsch, Plant Pathologist
Droplet Size and Fungicide Type - Michael Wunsch, Plant Pathologist
60-inch corn - Kelly Cooper, OIRS Agronomist and Joe Breker, Farmer
Effect of prevent plant and cover crops on soil fertility - Dave Franzen, NDSU Extension soil science specialist
Potato variety trials at the Oakes site - Susie Thompson, NDSU potato breeder
Resource: 2020 Oakes Trial Table
Residue removal trials at the Oakes site and the potential effect on soil carbon - Larry Cihacek, a professor in NDSU's Soil Science Department
Surprises while tile draining - Tom Scherer, NDSU Extension agricultural engineer
Kevin Sedivec - Grazing Cover Crops
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our 2020 Oakes Irrigation Research Site field day will be virtual. Prerecorded videos on a variety of topics similar to what we’d cover in person will go live here on August 4.
This year's field day at North Dakota State University's Oakes Irrigation Research Site - Robert Titus Research Farm will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Producers and others will be able to view the researchers' work by watching short prerecorded videos shot on location. The videos will be available starting Aug. 4 at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/carringtonrec/oakes-irrigation-research-site.
Topics that will be covered this year and the presenters are:
* White mold control in soybeans and dry beans - Michael Wunsch, plant pathologist at NDSU's Carrington Research Extension Center
* 60-inch corn, more accurately called wide-row corn - Kelly Cooper, agronomist at the Oakes Irrigation Research Site, and producer Joe Breker
* Trends in cover crops, what farmers are planting and why - Abbey Wick, NDSU Extension soil health specialist
* Effect of prevent plant and cover crops on soil fertility - Dave Franzen, NDSU Extension soil science specialist
* Potato variety trials at the Oakes site - Susie Thompson, NDSU potato breeder
* Residue removal trials at the Oakes site and the potential effect on soil carbon - Larry Cihacek, a professor in NDSU's Soil Science Department
* Surprises while tile draining - Tom Scherer, NDSU Extension agricultural engineer
This year, the Oakes site has trials involving wheat, corn, soybeans, dry beans, hemp, lentils and cover crops."We try to do a few fun things as well, like late-planted sweet corn, squash for cover crops in the wide-row corn, and specialty potatoes," Cooper says.
The approximately 40-acre site, which is 4.5 miles south of Oakes, is a substation of the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center.
For more information, contact the Carrington Research Extension Center at 701-652-2951 or visit its website at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC.
NDSU Agriculture Communication - July 24, 2020
:Source: Kelly Cooper, 701-742-2744, kelly.c.cooper@ndsu.edu
:Editor: Ellen Crawford, 701-231-5391, ellen.crawford@ndsu.edu
