NEWS for North Dakotans
Agriculture Communication, North Dakota State
University
7 Morrill Hall, Fargo, ND 58105-5665
July 9, 1998
The 1998 Field Day at North Dakota State University's North Central Research Extension Center at Minot, N.D., is set for Wednesday, July 15, beginning with coffee and rolls at 9 a.m. and a grain varieties and specialty crop tour at 9:30. The field day is free and open to the public.
The morning tour will feature sessions on hard red spring wheat and white wheat, durum, barley, oats, specialty crops, dormant-seeded canola and yield monitoring. The noon meal will be sponsored by area businesses.
A crop management tour begins at 1:30 p.m., featuring sessions on weed control in small grains, soybean production in northern North Dakota, weed control in canola, insects and diseases affecting canola, sunflower insect concerns, and Canada thistle.
The pea and lentil tour begins at 4:30 and features sessions on inoculants, planting date and plant populations, market outlooks, no-till pea production, row spacing effects on pea production, herbicide research trials, harvesting quality peas and lentils, managing Canada thistle and soil fertility.
The sessions will be conducted by staff of the NDSU Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station.
Before and after the tours, farmers may bring crop samples to a crop clinic set up on site to diagnose plant problems. Groundbreaking for the new Technology Transfer Center at the NCREC will take place at 12:45.
The North Central Research Extension Center is located at 5600 Highway 83 South near Minot. For more information, contact the center at (701) 857-7679.
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Source: Jay Fisher (701) 857-7679
Editor: Barry Brissman (701) 231-7866