Volume
3 Issue 3
June
6, 2006
Small Grain Crop Staging & Management
Clinics
Just a Reminder: Producers are invited to
participate in upcoming University of Minnesota Extension
Small Grain Staging & Management Clinics to be held at
various locations in June in Northwest Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Crop Specialists and Extension
Educators will be on hand, to answer 2006 growing season
concerns, questions and to exchange information.
Clinic Times and Locations:
Lake Park
Thursday, June 15, 2006
8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Lake Park City Center
Comstock
Thursday, June 15, 2006
11:00a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Community Center
Gary
Wednesday, June 21st
9:00 – 11 :00 a.m.
Triangle Ag. Complex
The Clinics will be hands-on; with producers encouraged
to bring in wheat and barley samples for evaluation of
crop stage and participate in a discussion of management
decisions related to stage of growth. The topics at these
clinics will not be limited to staging, as an open
discussion is encouraged on all small grain management
issues such as; seeding, plant populations, fertility,
genetics, insect and weed pressures, and pre-harvest
herbicides.
 CRP
Weed Control Strategies Field Tours June 19 & 20
June 19 -
1:30 pm - St Hilaire
Plots are located two miles south of St Hilaire on Hwy
32, turn west for 3.5 miles or until the road comes to
a T; the plots are on the north side of the road.
Treatments: airplane versus ground
application; spring application without mowing versus
fall application with mowing; herbicide and herbicide
rate comparisons
June 20 -
10 am - Crookston
Plots are located east of Crookston on Highway 2 for 8
½ miles; on south side of road (/2 mile west of County
Rd 44) on the Russ Severson farm.
Treatments: comparison of herbicides
at optimum rates; spring application without mowing
versus fall application with mowing. A noon lunch
sponsored by DowAgrosciences will follow the plot
tour.
For more information contact Carlyle
Holen, IPM Specialist-NW
Phone:(218) 281-8691 or E-mail: cholen@umn.edu
Or Russ Severson at 218-281-8695 or 218-289-0499 .
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