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Wheat variety resultsBy Richard C. Snell Barton County Extension Agent, agriculture Kansas Seek and you will find! If you are looking for yield information and variety characteristics as you try to decide what seed wheat to plant this fall, we are the right place. First, I have the results of the Barton County variety plot. You can pick up a copy at the Extension office at 12th and Baker in Great Bend or I can e-mail, fax or mail them to you. Also, we have the K-State Wheat Performance Test Booklets that have the Seed Directory included on where you can buy which variety. These have a summary of characteristics of some of the popular and newer varieties. More fall crop field days You have just three more chances. There are three more crop fall field days that K-State has at it's various experiment fields close to us that will be held soon. This is your opportunity. Usually, it only knocks once; but, like Tony Orlando and Dawn, we are knocking three times. There are two of these Aug. 26 going on pretty much simultaneously. One is at the Hays Research Station and the other is at the Hutchinson Field. The Hutch Field Day starts at 7:45 a.m., with biscuits and gravy. The tours start at 8:30 a.m. Topics to be covered include: Sunflowers in South Central Kansas, A Sunflower Market for South Central Kansas, Herbicide-Resistant Sorghum, Delayed Corn Planting and Hybrid Maturity, Sesame in Kansas Wheat Fertility in 2008-2009. The event will end by noon. The field is located southwest of Hutchinson at 10620 Dean Road. Hays fall field day The field day at Hays begins at 9 a.m., with coffee and doughnuts. Bob Gillen, head of the Western Kansas Ag Research Center, will give the welcome at 9:30 a.m. Field tours will begin at 9:40 a.m. On the morning tour stops, you will see and hear about: Weed Control on Sorghum and Sunflowers; How Residue Management Affects Soils, Crops and the Environment; Sorghum for Biomass Production; and Corn vs. Sorghum in Western Kansas. The trailers will return at 11:20 a.m. At 11:30 a.m., entomologist J.P. Michaud will attempt to answer the question: What Happened to Greenbugs on Sorghum? Lunch follows this talk in the auditorium. At 1 p.m., Dan O'Brien, area economist, will give a market outlook for wheat and other grains. Then Pat Coyne will address: Precision Agriculture and Zonal Management--What's possible? What's practical? The program adjourns at 2:20 p.m. Your third and final chance Your final chance on the K-State crop field days is Aug. 28. The welcome begins at 9:15 a.m., for the Garden City Experiment Station Field Day. Registration, coffee and doughnuts begins at 8:30 a.m. The actual tours will depart at 9:30 a.m. There will be two separate tours and these will be repeated so you will be able to see and hear all of the information. Tour 1 focuses on: Status of Biological Control of Field Bindweed in Kansas, Management of Soybean Stem Borers, and Comparison of Five Herbicides with a New Mode of Action in Irrigated Corn. The second tour will address: Post-emergence Grass Control in ALS-Resistant Grain Sorghum, Kixor and Huskie Herbicides for Broadleaf Control in Grain Sorghum, Impact of Volunteer Roundup Ready Corn on Winter Wheat, and Annual and Perennial Bio-fuel Production. During lunch time, there will be ag product displays and booths by companies. They will be providing lunch. Afternoon seminars will run from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m., in the conference room and will include: Management Strategies to Improve Profitability-Beef Cattle Research at the Hays Research Center, A Summary of Recent Feedlot Research on Feeding Distillers Grain By-products, Irrigation Scheduling Using KanSched2 and Mobile Irrigation Lab Report on Center Pivot Evaluation, and Can We Make Deficit Irrigation Work? Credits will be offered to commercial pesticide applicators for re-certification. There are other events going on Aug. 28 Aug. 28 must be a red letter day because nearly everyone has something on that date. I guess it's before we get into fall harvest and wheat fertilizing and planting. There are many events taking place as you have already read. Read on and I will briefly list more things. Did you know that K-State's North Central Field Day at Belleville will hold its fall field day at Belleville on Aug. 28 at 5:30 p.m? Smith County will hold their fall crops tour Aug. 28 at 6:30 a.m., starting with a free breakfast at the American Legion in Lebanon. The K-State Northwest Research-Extension Center in Colby will hold its 2008 Horticulture Field Day from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. A Brush and Pasture Management Field Day will be held Aug. 28, starting at 3 p.m., east of Ottawa, in eastern Kansas. Call 785-229- 3520 for details and reservations. I won't be able to attend any of those since that is the day we take our Bankers Tour in selecting conservation winners. 9/1/08 Date: 8/28/08 Advertisement
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