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Wheat day features
bio-tech and Wheat tours
Kansas
The 2004 Kansas Wheat Day, scheduled for May 26 in Hays, will focus on biotech issues as well as a review of current production through tours of the test plots at the Agricultural Research Center in Hays. Meetings of the Kansas Wheat Commission and the board of directors of the Kansas Association are also on the schedule.
Two individuals, well-versed on the biotech issue in wheat, are featured speakers for the Wheat Day observance.
The Agricultural Research Center in Hays, along with the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and the Kansas Wheat Commission annually organize the Wheat Day event, with all Kansas Wheat producers invited to participate.
The featured speakers will include one from Canada and another from Kansas State University.
Dr. Bickram Gill, director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center at Kansas State University in Manhattan will be one of the featured speakers on the issue of Wheat biotechnology.
Also speaking at Kansas Wheat Day will be Bill Nicholson, a farmer-elected director on the Canadian Wheat Board. Nicholson farms in Manitoba, Canada, and chairs the board's Strategic Issues Committee. Both of the speakers will offer their unique perspectives on the matter of bio-tech issues in wheat.
The scheduled events will begin in the morning with the meeting of the Kansas Wheat Commission beginning at 8:15 a.m., and the meeting of the KAWG directors starting at 8:30 a.m.
A buffet lunch will be provided at 12:30 p.m. for those attending, followed by the comments from the two speakers beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Brett Myers, executive vice president of the KAWG, stressed that all of the morning sessions, the lunch, and the speakers are open to all Kansas Wheat producers at no cost.
Following the session on the bio-tech issues, a field tour of Wheat research conducted at the Agricultural Research Center in Hays will be offered starting at 3:30 p.m. Hays Wheat breeder, Joe Martin, will present the 2004 edition of the Wheat variety performance test. Alan Fritz, Manhattan Wheat breeder, will showcase breeding lines that are in the advanced phase of testing for possible release.
In addition to comparing the field performance of Wheat varieties and breeding lines, Phillip Stahlman, Hays weed scientist, will discuss results from his testing of Clearfield technology in wheat, and Hays entomologist, J.P. Michaud, will provide an update on the status of army cutworm and recent genetic changes reported in the Russian Wheat aphid.
Both the KAWG board and the KWC are expected to consider comments received over the past several weeks on the possible cooperative agreement between the two organizations. The long-range planning committees of both organizations have been studying the feasibility of a cooperative agreement between the two Kansas Wheat industry organizations, with the goal of providing the very best representation that can be provided to Kansas Wheat producers. The target would be to further enhance and maximize the effectiveness, efficiency and communication in the industry. Both organizations would remain intact, but would allow for one chief executive officer and shared staff in a common facility. More joint meetings between the KAWG and the KWC would also follow. In an earlier announcement to Kansas Wheat producers, the two organizations had asked for comments on the proposed agreement, with the decision on the proposal to be made by June 1, 2004.
Myers, along with Pat Coyne, head of the Western Kansas Agricultural Research Center in Hays, stress that the events of the entire Wheat Day schedule are open to all Kansas Wheat producers, and are not limited to KAWG members only.
Date: 5/20/04
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