NEWS for North Dakotans
Agriculture Communication, North Dakota State University
7 Morrill Hall, Fargo, ND 58105-5665
December 7, 2000
The annual Lake Region Extension Roundup in Devils Lake, which includes two days of presentations on a wide range of agricultural production and farm and family financial management topics, is set for Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 10 and 11, at the Memorial Building. The roundup is organized by the North Dakota State University Extension Service with input from agribusiness and other agricultural agencies.
Both days open with a sponsored breakfast from 8 to 9:15 a.m. with the program starting at 9:30 a.m.
Topics at the opening session Wednesday morning will include small grain variety performance, barley markets and issues, small grain herbicide update and worrisome new weeds, and hard red spring and durum wheat markets.
Following a sponsored lunch, afternoon topics will include canola planting, fungicides for white mold in canola, fertilizer cost and supply projections, herbicide update for row crops, soybean planting technology studies and fungicide performance in small grains.
Concurrent sessions held in the Armory Room on Wednesday will include fungicide application results, fertilizer placement in small grains and oil seeds, grandparenting today’s grandchildren and market clubs to improve profits. Topics in the Courthouse Historical Room will include anthrax management and livestock markets. Discussed in the Courthouse Meeting Room will be 21st century shopping, enjoying mealtimes and memories, adjuvants to optimize weed control and storage issues with dry beans and poor quality grain. Concurrent sessions in the Memorial Room Basement will include farm tax update, new seed varieties, possibilities for new markets, soybean production in northern North Dakota, choices of dual heat, marketing tools on the Internet, confection sunflower opportunities and what’s new for 2001.
Leading off the general session on Thursday morning will be flax fertility for 35 bushel yields, followed by how the organic market is performing, row spacing in sunflower, farm policy in 2001 and oilseed and sunflower outlook.
Following lunch, topics will include agriculture in the 21st Century, selecting for corn and soybean maturity, marketing suggestions for poor quality wheat, Canada thistle control in CRP, flax or soybean production in northeastern North Dakota, and fungicides for white mold control in dry beans.
Thursday concurrent sessions in the Armory Room will include genetically modified crops, practical application of precision farming techniques, white mold control in broadleaf crops, and determining land and machinery costs. In the Courthouse Meeting Room, sessions will include dealing with stress, is the message I send the message you get, sunflower markets and issues and ideas on marketing wheats. Courthouse Historical Room concurrent sessions will include marketing cattle on the Internet, feeding barley to livestock and wild oat. In the Memorial Room Basement, Thursday sessions will include crop production update, exploring new career options, an update on assertive technology, product lines for 2001, truck weights and restrictions, divorce busters, precision fertilizer placement while seeding, State Seed Department update, Ramsey County Soil Conservation District services, corn Roundup application, managing scerlotinia with Ronilan and Glyphomax for 2001.
There will also be informational exhibits in the Memorial Building and 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, tgregoir@ndsuext.nodak.edu
Editor: Gary Moran, (701) 231-7865, gmoran@ndsuext.nodak.edu