July 24, 2008
South Central Ag Lab Near Clay Center Hosts Aug. 6 Field Day
LINCOLN, Neb. — An Aug. 6 field day from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center will highlight ongoing research projects being conducted at the lab.
Three field tour stops will cover:
– Mark Bernards, UNL irrigated weeds specialist, new crop herbicides, weed identification and volunteer corn management and population estimation;
– Bob Wright, UNL field crops entomology specialist, and Elizabeth Sarno, organic farming systems educator, organic cropping systems research and soybean variety demonstration;
– Suat Irmak, UNL water resources engineer, center pivot research, subsurface drip irrigation research update and soil evaporation and crop transpiration for no-till and disk-till fields with corn and soybeans;
– Tamra Jackson, UNL plant pathology specialist, management of foliar diseases of corn, fungicide efficacy trials;
– Jennifer Rees, UNL Extension educator, Quad County On-farm Research, soybean population study;
– Richard Ferguson, UNL soils specialist, remote sensing of crops, Veris pH mapping and in-season nitrogen sensing.
A noon meal will be provided by the field day sponsors. These include UNL’s Southeast Research and Extension Center, the Nebraska Corn Board, the Nebraska Soybean Board and Flowserve Pump Division of Hastings. Ken Cassman, director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, will speak during the noon hour on "Avoiding the Backlash: Ensuring Sustainability of Corn-Ethanol Systems."
The South Central Agricultural Laboratory is located on the south side of Highway 6, 13 miles east of Hastings or 7.5 miles west of the Highway 14 and Highway 6 intersection. For more information visit the South Central Ag Lab's Web page or call (402) 762-4403.
UNL Extension is in the university's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
7/24/08-SK
Robert J. Wright - Ph.D.
Entomology
Professor
(402) 472-2128
Sandi Alswager Karstens IANR News and Photography (402) 472-3030
Department: Extension
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