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The Western Kansas Agricultural Research Centers (WKARC), one of several administrative units accountable to the KAES director, is composed of four sub-units including the Agricultural Research Center - Hays (ARCH), the Southwest Research-Extension Center - Garden City(SWREC) and Southwest Research-Extension Center - Tribune (SWREC-T), and the Northwest Research-Extension Center - Colby (NWREC).


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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.
 
SWREC>Southwest Research Center
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.
Contact Information      


WKARC Operations
1232 240th Avenue
Hays, Kansas 67601-9228
Phone:785-625-3425
Fax:785-623-4369

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