The Northwest Experiment Station and the University of Minnesota-Crookston will host a Small Grain and Sugarbeet Weed Control Tour next Thursday, July 9. Also included will be currently-registered herbicides, new experimentals, and timing of herbicide application with Liberty and Roundup on sugarbeet. 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, as well as 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.
The West Central Experiment Station in Morris, MN, will be holding a Summer Station Day on Thursday, July 9. Registration begins at 7 am at the Experiment Station, east of the Morris campus on Hwy 329. Refreshments will be provided. Application at watery ripe to early milk stage of kernel development gave very little control, according to McMullen. Though application of fungicides after the flowering period may not adequately control scab, some late season leaf disease control could occur.