May 23, 2003

 

Crop Management Field School Scheduled June 19 at Carrington

A crop management field school will be offered Thursday, June 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center. The school is organized and conducted by the NDSU Extension Service primarily for crop advisors.

The school will provide hands-on training on crop pest and soil management using field research and demonstration plots. Specific field sessions include weed identification; herbicide mode-of-action diagnosis; corn, soybean, and sunflower insect updates; wheat and soybean disease management; corn growth stages and management strategies; and soil properties and management opportunities.

Workshop instructors include NDSU Extension Service specialists: agronomist Duane Berglund, plant pathologist Carl Bradley, cropping systems specialist Greg Endres, entomologist Phil Glogoza, cropping systems specialist Terry Gregoire, plant pathologist Marcia McMullen, and weed specialist Richard Zollinger. Ken Eraas, North Dakota Department of Agriculture noxious weed specialist, David Hopkins, NDSU soil scientist, and John Lee, Agvise soil scientist, will also be instructors.

For further details and preregistration information, contact the Carrington center at (701)652-2951, e-mail gendres@ndsuext.nodak.edu, or see www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/events.html. A completed preregistration form and $50 fee is requested by June 13 ($60 after June 14). A total of 50 participants will be accepted on a first-come basis. An application is being submitted to the Certified Crop Adviser program to provide participants with four IPM, one soil and water management, 0.5 crop management, and 0.5 nutrient management continuing education units.

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Source: Greg Endres, (701) 652-2951, gendres@ndsuext.nodak.edu
Editor: Tom Jirik, (701) 231-9629, tjirik@ndsuext.nodak.edu