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Oakes Irrigation Site Virtual Field Day Set

White mold control in soybeans and dry beans will be one of the topics covered.

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
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