NEWS for North Dakotans
Agriculture Communication, North Dakota State University
7 Morrill Hall, Fargo, ND 58105-5665
December 23, 1999
The annual Lake Region Extension Roundup is set for Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 11 and 12, at the Memorial Building in Devils Lake. The program will feature presentations on a wide range of topics including crop production and marketing, farm and family financial management, and computer topics. Both days open with a sponsored breakfast at 8 a.m. with the program starting at 9:30 a.m.
Topics at the opening session on Tuesday morning will include wheat and durum variety performance, what General Mills needs from production agriculture, thinking and farming globally, and the market outlook for wheat and durum.
Following a sponsored lunch, afternoon topics will include the economic impact of farm programs, options for dormant seeding canola, challenges facing the farm family, herbicide-tolerant canola, fungicide performance in small grains, head and leaf disease tolerance of small grain varieties, and flax varieties and flax weed control.
Concurrent sessions held in the Armory Room on Tuesday will include when the time
comes, indoor air quality, storage tips for oilseed crops and dealing with change.
Sessions in the Courthouse Historical Room will include using the World Wide Web
efficiently and
E-commerce. Presentations in the Courthouse Meeting Room will include fungicide
application research, maintaining personal health, what neighbors are for, markets and
world issues in wheat and partnerships to reduce machinery ownership costs. Sessions in
the Memorial Building basement will include interagency project for assistive technology,
crop protection product updates from DuPont, ProSeed, Novartis and AgrEvo, multi-peril
crop insurance, and the North Dakota Pea and Lentil Assocition.
Topics at the Wednesday morning session in the Memorial Building will include sunflower midge management, Sclerotinia head rot in sunflower, the organic market, how white mold impacts the edible sunflower market, and confection and oil sunflower markets.
Following a sponsored lunch, afternoon topics will include genetically modified crops, dry bean seeding rates, the farm financial situation, winter wheat varieties and production, herbicide update and stored grain management.
Wednesday concurrent sessions in the Armory Room will focus on Power Pay debt-reduction computer program, sunflower midge research, managing white mold and dry bean markets. Sessions in the Courthouse Historical Room will include the Goldboard Dakota strawboard plant, decision evaluation for the cattle industry, bull selection and managing farm financial resources. Sessions in the Courthouse meeting Room will include early maturing dwarf corn, rotation studies, feed grain markets, tax considerations when leaving farming and finding humor when you need it most. Wednesday sessions in the Memorial Building basement will include a product update from Dow, an overview of senior health insurance, tree planting, depression and suicide prevention, changes in the confection industry, lifelong learning, use of canola and Nu Sun sunflower seed, domestic violence, floor warming, miracles in daily life and Roundup Ready canola.
There will also be informational exhibits both days in the Memorial Building and the Courthouse.
For more detailed information contact the NDSU Extension Service area office in Devils Lake at (701) 662-1364 or local county extension offices.
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Source: Terry Gregoire (701) 662-1364
Editor: Gary Moran (701) 231-7865