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May 5, 2005 Crop Management Field School Scheduled for June 23 at Carrington A crop management field school will be offered Thursday, June 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center. The event’s targeted audience is crop advisers. The NDSU Extension Service organized the school and will conduct it. 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, small-grain and soybean disease management, soil health and tillage systems with emphasis on strip till. Workshop instructors include NDSU Extension Service crop, soil and pest specialists Carl Bradley, Greg Endres, Dave Franzen, Terry Gregoire and Marcia McMullen; Ken Eraas, North Dakota Department of Agriculture noxious weed specialist; and Susan Samson-Liebig, Natural Resources Conservation Service soil quality specialist. Send a completed pre-registration form and $50 fee to the Carrington Research Extension Center, Box 219, Carrington, ND 58421-0219 by June 20. The fee increases to $75 after June 20. Fifty participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. An application will be submitted to the Certified Crop Adviser program to provide participants with 1 soil and water management and 4 integrated pest management continuing education units. For further details and pre-registration information, contact the Carrington center at (701) 652-2951 or visit its Web site www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/carringt/. ### Source:
Greg Endres, (701) 652-2951, gendres@ndsuext.nodak.edu |
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