United Electric Co-op will provide coffee, juice and rolls at registration. The Worth County Young Farmers will serve a free barbecue lunch at noon. After lunch an Agricultural Leadership Forum will allow visitors a chance to see progress on the Learning Discovery Center under construction. There will be four separate, fast-moving tours this year, said Don Null, University Extension agronomist and research farm supervisor. Weed control research is featured on three of the tours.
Organizers plan to keep each to an hour or less.
More than 50 industry representatives and MU researchers will make presentations. Researchers at the center are conducting nearly 50 separate weed control studies on more than 2,500 plots. Each has been prepared, treated and rated for weed control. Among the herbicides on test at the farm this year are several different formulations of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. Visitors can see how well these generic formulations worked, Null said.