Three tours of research plots will get underway at 9 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 22, at the University of Missouri Graves Field agricultural experiment center just off Interstate 29 north of the Corning, Mo., Exit. Rick Bottoms, regional extension agronomist at Oregon, Mo., has lined up more than a dozen speakers from the University of Missouri and from local extension centers to explain the research at the center.
Topics range from soil fertility and irrigation to corn grown in clover to watermelons.
MU specialists will be on hand to discuss insect, disease, and other pest problems found in corn and soybeans this year. At noon, there will be a pork barbecue lunch, sponsored by local agri- businesses. The last of the tours will load on the wagons at 1 p.m., says Bottoms, who is agronomist and superintendent of the Graves Experiment Center. The field day is free and open to the public. To get to the starting point for the Graves Field tours on Tuesday, take Exit 99 off of Interstate 29 and go north three miles on the east outer road.