by Deloris Pittman | Eastern NE Research & Extension Center
Lincoln, Neb. —Come see what’s going on at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s South Central Agricultural Laboratory (SCAL) field trials on Thursday, Aug. 4. The field day includes topics focusing on improved crop production and profitability. The event is designed so guests can customize their day to select the tours they are most interested in. Topics and presenters include:
Nutrient Management - Insights from long term research trials and digital agriculture technologies in corn and winter wheat
Laila Puntel, Extension Soil Fertility and Precision Ag Specialist; Guillermo Balboa, Research Assistant Professor; Jose Cesario, graduate student; and Christian Uwineza, graduate student
Soil Health - Using cover crops, biochar, and other practices
Katja Koehler-Cole, Soil Health Management Extension Educator; Michael Kaiser, Asst. Professor in Applied Soil Chemistry; and Britt Fossum, Graduate Student
Disease Management - Corn and soybean disease updates
Tamra Jackson-Ziems and Dylan Mangel, Nebraska Extension Plant Pathologists
Insect Management - Corn and soybean insect updates
Robert Wright, Nebraska Extension Entomologist and Ron Seymour, Nebraska Extension Educator
Irrigation Management - Remote sensing for irrigation scheduling
Steve Melvin, Cropping Systems Extension Educator and Christopher Neale, Director, Water for Food Institute
Weed Management - Cover crop for weed suppression in corn and soybean: Planting green and intercropping
Amit Jhala, Nebraska Extension Weed Management Specialist
The event begins with registration at 8:30 a.m., opening remarks by Charles Stoltenow, Dean of Nebraska Extension at 8:45 a.m. followed by tours of research sites through 3:05 p.m. John Shanahan with Agoro Carbon is the keynote speaker during the lunch break presenting “Carbon market potential for U.S. producers”.
SCAL is located at 851 Hwy. 6 near Harvard.
Details, map and registration at https://go.unl.edu/scalfieldday. There is no cost to attend the field day, but participants are asked to preregister at the website by Aug. 1 for planning purposes.
For more information, call (402)762-3536 or e-mail shachtel1@unl.edu. Continuing Education Units have been applied for and are pending.