2019 Fall Field Day
Southwest Research-Extension Center Fall Field Day
GARDEN CITY, Kan. – The 2019 K-State Southwest Research-Extension Center Fall Field Day is set for August 22 at 4500 E. Mary Street in Garden City. Registration and industry booths open at 8 a.m.; the program starts at 9:15 a.m.
The morning features field tours, followed by lunch. Afternoon seminars start at 1 p.m.
Field Tour 1:
· Weed control in irrigated corn
– Dr. Randall Currie, Weed Scientist
· Performance tests of summer annual forages: Sorghum, Sudan, Millet and Corn
– Dr. John Holman, Cropping Systems Agronomist
Field Tour 2:
· Maximizing irrigation efficiency
– Dr. Jonathan Aguilar, Extension Water Resource Engineer
· Weed control in irrigated grain sorghum
– Dr. Vipan Kumar, Weed Scientist
· Options for control of Starane-resistant kochia
– Dr. Vipan Kumar, Weed Scientist
The tours will be repeated so attendees can participate in both.
Lunch will be provided, courtesy of industry exhibitors
After lunch seminars include:
· Bt corn refuges review: What’s working and what’s not
– Dr. Sarah Zukoff, Extension Entomologist
· Beneficial insects on your farm and how to keep them happy
– Dr. Sarah Zukoff, Extension Entomologist
· Herbicides and a wheat cover crop for kochia control in corn
– Dr. Randall Currie, Weed Scientist
· Multiple herbicides-resistant kochia: Where are we and where are we going?
– Dr. Vipan Kumar, Weed Scientist
Commercial agricultural product displays will be available through the day.
More information about the 2019 Fall Field Day is available by calling 620-276-8286.
