High Plains Ag Lab Field Day spotlights wheat topics

Speakers from the University and other organizations will provide up-to-date information about:

• Wheat varieties, including hard red winter, hard white, and Clearfield
• Wheat curl mite movement and wheat streak mosaic
• Improving nitrogen management for high-quality white wheat
• Wheat performance following spring and summer crops
• Feral rye control in Clearfield wheat
• Organic cropping systems
• Crops for biodiesel production

Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The field day will conclude around noon and does not include lunch.

A bonus tour on dryland weed control studies is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. This tour will cover research plots looking at weed control options in winter wheat, brown mustard, proso millet and sunflower.

To get to the High Plains Ag Lab, take U.S. 385 to the Huntsman Elevator (6 miles north of Sidney or 7 miles south of Gurley), then drive 2 miles west, then 1/2 mile north.

The High Plains Ag Lab, a satellite unit of the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, is dedicated to improving profitability for dryland crops and livestock production. It is located on land that was formerly part of the Sioux Army Depot.

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Published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperating with the counties and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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