*Correction from previous release: No ribbon-cutting events are planned for this year's HREC field tour.

The North Dakota State University (NDSU) Hettinger Research Extension Center (HREC) annual field tour will be held on July 15 at 5 p.m. Mountain time starting at the HREC Agronomy and Range Research Laboratory.

Participants will have the opportunity to see research trials of several crops being grown at the HREC and hear presentations from NDSU Extension specialists and research scientists.

This year’s topics and speakers are:

• Soil Health Express – Chandler Gruener, NDSU Extension soil health specialist
• Weed-control research and weed management update - Caleb Dalley, HREC weed scientist
• Small grain disease outlook and wheat scab research - Andrew Friskop, NDSU Extension plant pathologist
• Spring wheat varieties and white wheat breeding project - Andrew Green, NDSU spring wheat breeder
• Corn population trial – Kayla Ehlis, NDSU graduate student and Clair Keene, NDSU Extension small grain and corn agronomist
• Carbon markets – David Ripplinger, NDSU Extension bioproducts/bioenergy economist
• ND farm/ranch management education program – Thomas J. Wood, Bismarck State College farm management education
• Information on other agronomy research projects at the HREC including pulse inoculant, canola sulfur fertilizer and azospirillum bacteria on corn – John Rickertsen, HREC research agronomist
• NDSU Big Data Initiative Program will have information on technology being deployed at the HREC to collect data and enhance research projects.

“We have nice lineup of speakers this year focusing on agronomy research, soil health, market opportunities and exciting new technology being installed at the HREC,” Rickertsen says.

There will be a supper following the tour sponsored by Farm Credit Services of Mandan, CHS-Southwest Grain, Helena Agri-Enterprises and LemmonMade Butcher Shop.

All activities are free of charge.

For more information on the HREC’s annual field tours, visit ndsu.ag/hrecfieldday25.

NDSU Agriculture Communication – June 27, 2025

Source: John Rickertsen, 701-567-4323, john.rickertsen@ndsu.edu

Editor:  Kelli Anderson, 701-231-6136, kelli.c.anderson@ndsu.edu