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May 6, 2004 Crop Management Field School Scheduled June 17 at Carrington A crop management field school will be offered Thursday, June 17, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. at the North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center. The event’s targeted audience is crop advisers. The school is organized and conducted by the NDSU Extension Service. The school will provide hands-on training about crop, crop pest and soil management using field research and demonstration plots. Specific field sessions include weed identification, herbicide mode-of-action diagnosis, soybean aphid and other insect management updates, small grain and soybean disease management, crop and soil impact with no-till and supplying nitrogen to soybean. Workshop instructors include NDSU Extension Service crop and pest specialists: Carl Bradley, Greg Endres, Phil Glogoza, Terry Gregoire and Marcia McMullen. Also featured are: Ezra Aberle and Bob Henson, NDSU research agronomists; Ken Eraas, North Dakota Department of Agriculture noxious weed specialist; and Hal Weiser, Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientist. For further details and preregistration information, contact the Carrington center at (701) 652-2951 or go to www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/ on the Web. A completed preregistration form and $50 fee is requested by June 14 ($75 after June 14). A total of 50 participants will be accepted on a first-come/first-serve basis. An application has been submitted to the Certified Crop Adviser program to provide participants with 4.5 IPM, 0.5 soil and water management, 0.5 crop management and 0.5 nutrient management continuing education units. ### Source: Greg
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