Kansas State University Southwest Research-Extension Center
Garden City, Kansas - The Southwest Research-Extension Center will host is annual Fall Field Day on August 26th, 2010. Registration will be from 8:00-9:00 a.m. with coffee and doughnuts served. Those attending the field day can visit numerous vendor booths that will be on display.
Southwest Research-Extension Center - Garden City, Kansas
The field day tour will officially begin with the welcome message at 9:00 a.m. Tours 1 and 2 will begin at 9:15 and proceed through 10:50 a.m.. The tours will be repeated at 11:00 a.m. and proceed through 12:15 p.m.. Lunch will then be provided from 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.. Afternoon seminars will run from 1:15 p.m. until 3:15 p.m. Below is a detail schedule of morning field tours and afternoon seminars:
Field Tour 1
- Iron fertilization for soybean (Kent Martin)
- Iron and zinc fertilization for sorghum (Kent Martin)
- Corn disease and fungicides (Kent Martin)
- Comparisons of 50 herbicide tank mixes of experimental, new, and old standards for weed control in corn (Randall Currie)
Field Tour 2
- Alfalfa irrigation management options (Norman Klocke)
- Stripper headers and water conservation (Norman Klocke)
- Interactions of sorghum varieties, new herbicides, and iron chlorosis (Phillip Stahlman, Randall Currie, and Curtis Thompson)
- Soon-to-be-released herbicides for weed control in sorghum (Phillip Stahlman, Randall Currie, and Curtis Thompson)
- New postemergence grass control herbicides for sorghum (Phillip Stahlman, Randall Currie, and Curtis Thompson)
- Switchgrass biofuel production (John Holman)
Afternoon Seminars*
- Improved technology for nitrogen fertilization (Kent Martin)
- Winter canola production (John Holman)
- Recent refuge changes for corn borers: Nonsense or real science? (Larry Buschman)
- Insecticide management options for Dectes stem borers (Larry Buschman)
* Credit earned for category 1A commercial pesticide applicator recertification, including 0.5 credit hours for Tour 1 and Tour 2. The afternoon seminars count for 1.0 credit hour. We will also apply for 4.0 Certified Crop Advisor continuing education units.