NEWS for North Dakotans
Agriculture Communication, North Dakota State University
7 Morrill Hall, Fargo, ND 58105-5665
May 18, 2000
A crop management field school will be offered from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 29, at the North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center. The program is designed for crop advisers, but farmers are welcome. Crop specialists with the NDSU Extension Service will provide the training.
The program will include hands-on field sessions on weed identification, herbicide mode-of-action diagnosis, field monitoring for insects, fungicide decision aids and application for small grain disease, soil productivity and crop water use, and crop problem diagnosis.
For further details and preregistration information, contact the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center at (701) 652-2951, by e-mail (gendres@ndsuext.nodak.edu) or visit the center's Web site (www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/). A completed preregistration form and $30 fee is requested by Tuesday, June 20.
An application has been submitted to the Certified Crop Adviser program to provide participants with continuing education units, including five IPM, one crop production, and one soil and water management.
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Source: Greg Endres (701) 652-2951
Editor: Dean Hulse (701) 231-6136