Southwest Research-Extension Center - Garden City, Kansas.
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.
The field day tour will officially begin with the welcome message at 9:00 a.m. Tour 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.
The research program addresses agricultural production challenges specific to the region. Those include rainfed and irrigated cultural methods and management for most of the major crops grown in Kansas plus mitigating the effects of weed, insect, and disease pests associated with those crops. Irrigation is a major production input in southwest Kansas and development of new technology to improve irrigation efficiency is an important goal of the Center. The research agenda is coordinated with other KAES units to assure allocation of resources to priority issues, standardization of methods, and elimination of unwarranted redundancy.
The Center’s region of focus is the 22 counties in southwest Kansas. Target clientele include crop and beef cattle producers and county agricultural extension agents.
There are 4 research faculty located at Garden City. Faculty expertise is complemented by 17 full-time support staff including clerical, maintenance, and crop technician classifications. Student workers are hired for the summer field season.
The headquarters at Garden City includes 27 buildings. There are eight additional buildings at Tribune. Land resources are used for field crops research and production of foundation seed wheat or grain, hay, and silage.
| Class |
Owned
|
Leased
|
Total
|
| Cropland |
209
|
626
|
835
|
| Rangeland |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| B-R-W <1> |
27
|
71
|
98
|
| Acres |
236
|
697
|
933
|
| <1> B-R-W=Buildings, Roads, Waterways |
Funding comes from a variety of sources including state appropriations (salaries and wages, operating, supplemental allocations for equipment and maintenance), crop sales (fees), grants, and gifts.
The Garden City Branch of the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station was established in 1907 on 320 acres 5 miles northeast of Garden City. The Tribune Branch was established in 1911. These two branch stations were combined into the Southwest Branch Agricultural Experiment Station in 1986. In 1988, the station was given its current name: Southwest Research-Extension Center.