Currently-registered herbicides, new experimentals, and timing of herbicide application with Liberty and Roundup on sugarbeet will also be discussed. There will be a Small Grains Plot Tour at the North Agronomy Farm, with refreshments provided. The field tours will begin at 4 pm. U of M speakers will be Bob Busch, Deon Stuthman, Don Rasmusson, new wheat breeder Jim Anderson, and Ruth Dill-Macky, discussing their work developing wheat, oat and barley varieties, including their relative resistance to scab. Al Sims, George Rehm, Roger Jones and Jochum Wiersma will discuss their latest findings in production and management practices.
Tours are open to the public.
Registration begins at 7 am at the Experiment Station, east of the Morris campus on Hwy 329. Refreshments will be provided. In one Red Lake County field, whole wheat heads were found to be infested, with nearby stalks infected only spottily so far. In that field, some stems also suffered from leaf rust and aphids. Crop loss due to flooding and drown-out is a common sight in the Red River Valley.