NEWS for North Dakotans
Agriculture Communication, North Dakota State University
7 Morrill Hall, Fargo, ND 58105-5665

December 17, 1998

Lake Region Extension Roundup is Jan. 5 and 6

The 1999 Lake Region Extension Roundup, featuring two full days of presentations on a range of topics including crop and livestock production, farm management, family living and computer use, is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday Jan. 5 and 6 at the Memorial Building in Devils Lake, N.D. The event is conducted by the NDSU Extension Service, county extension offices and crop improvement associations in the Devils Lake area.

Both days open with a sponsored breakfast from 8:00 to 9:15 a.m., with the program starting at 9:30 on Tuesday and 9:00 on Wednesday. There is also a sponsored lunch at noon both days.

Topics covered at the Memorial Building on Tuesday will include Canola varieties, sunflower markets, making future farm decisions, wheat and durum markets, a presentation by cowboy poet and humorist Rodney Nelson, wheat and durum varieties, planning a crop rotation, profitable canola production, barley varieties, evaluating the sunflower midge threat, and flax production.

Concurrent sessions conducted at other sites on Tuesday will include anger management, fungicide research results, setting long-term goals for the farm, changing farm business plans, help with computers and computer searches, pre- and post-calving diets and calving herd health, economics of weed control, depression, privacy issues, do children respect responsibility, a spring wheat and durum discussion, and canola topics.

The Wednesday program in the Memorial Building will include corn production, sunflower production, micronutrient use in crops, sunflower and oil seed markets, drybean classes and sclerotinia tolerance, white mold in dry bean and canola, soybean production, putting value back into crops, herbicide rates, a farmer panel on dry bean production, and a herbicide and weed control update.

Concurrent sessions at other sites on Wednesday will include using fertilizer economically, dealing with rural realities, dry bean discussion, sunflower and oilseed discussion, negotiating land rental rates, trends in family living expenses, depression, Character Counts, computer consultation and using the Internet, beef quality assurance, and cattle feeding economics.

For detailed program information contact the NDSU Extension Service area office in Devils Lake at 701-662-7080 or local county extension service offices.

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Source: Terry Gregoire (701) 662-7080

Editor: Gary Moran (701) 231-7865