Small Grains Update Workshop: Grand Rapids

If you’re a farmer or crop consultant already producing small grains or are looking for another crop to add to your rotation, these small grains management workshops are for you. The UMN Extension will offer workshops at several regional locations in January and February. The focus will be on production agronomics, variety selection, and economics. Time will be reserved to answer your production questions.

Lunch starts at noon. Contact Jochum Wiersma at 218-281-8629, please register by February 23 for meal count.

Small Grains Update Workshop: Benson

If you’re a farmer or crop consultant already producing small grains or are looking for another crop to add to your rotation, these small grains management workshops are for you. The UMN Extension will offer workshops at several regional locations in January and February. The focus will be on production agronomics, variety selection, and economics. Time will be reserved to answer your production questions.

Lunch follows the meeting. Contact Scott Lee at 320-760-6129, please register by February 22 for meal count.

Small Grains Update Workshop: Slayton

If you’re a farmer or crop consultant already producing small grains or are looking for another crop to add to your rotation, these small grains management workshops are for you. The UMN Extension will offer workshops at several regional locations in January and February. The focus will be on production agronomics, variety selection, and economics. Time will be reserved to answer your production questions.

Venue: 4H Building, Slayton, Minnesota.

Small Grains Update Workshop: Cold Spring

If you’re a farmer or crop consultant already producing small grains or are looking for another crop to add to your rotation, these small grains management workshops are for you. The UMN Extension will offer workshops at several regional locations in January and February. The focus will be on production agronomics, variety selection, and economics. Time will be reserved to answer your production questions.

Lunch follows the meeting. Contact Joe Krippner at 320-980-2915, please register by February 19 for meal count.

Small Grains Update Workshop: Le Center

If you’re a farmer or crop consultant already producing small grains or are looking for another crop to add to your rotation, these small grains management workshops are for you. The UMN Extension will offer workshops at several regional locations in January and February. The focus will be on production agronomics, variety selection, and economics. Time will be reserved to answer your production questions.

Lunch starts at noon. Contact Shane Bugeja at 507-357-8232, please register by February 16 for meal count.

Venue: Le Center 4H Building

Small Grains Update Workshop: Morris

If you’re a farmer or crop consultant already producing small grains or are looking for another crop to add to your rotation, these small grains management workshops are for you. The UMN Extension will offer workshops at several regional locations in January and February. The focus will be on production agronomics, variety selection, and economics. Time will be reserved to answer your production questions.

NWROC Crops & Soils Day

Morning small grains program. Speakers include: Dr. Lindsay Pease: Performance of NWROC’s New Subsurface Drainage Installation; Dr. Ruth Dill-Macky: Diseases of Small Grains; Dr. Angie Peltier: Planting Green Along the Red: The effects of tillage, rye seeding rate, and termination timing on soybean; Dr. Brian Steffenson: A Walk on the Wild Side: Exploiting Wild Relatives to Enhance Disease Resistance in Wheat and Barley; Dr. James Anderson: Wheat Breeding Variety Update; Dr. Kevin Smith: Barley Breeding Research Update; Dr. Ian MacRae: Insect Research, 2022; Jonathan Wenger: Breeding drug-free industrial hemp for fiber production in Minnesota and the Dakotas.

Complimentary lunch at noon.

Afternoon sugarbeet program. Speakers include: Dr. Ashok Chanda: Management of Major Sugarbeet Diseases; Dr. Thomas Peters: Sugarbeet Tolerance with Ultra Blazer in Sugarbeet; Dr. Lindsay Pease: Interseeding Cover Crops into Sugarbeets.

UMN Extension Announces Small Grain Plot Tours

Photo courtesy UMN Extension.

The UMN Extension is offering Small Grain Summer Plot Tours to provide farmers and crop consultants with the tools to make small grain production successful and profitable.

Tours will be held in several locations from late June through July.

Presentation topics include:

  • Production agronomics
  • Variety selection
  • Pest identification and management
  • Fungicide use

These programs are interactive with hands-on demonstrations of genetics, pests and growth stages. They feature tours of current research plots as well as discussions of on-farm experiences. Feel free to bring any field samples for diagnosis or discussion!

Monday, June 27, 2022
Southern MN small grain plot tours—LeCenter
12:30–3 p.m.
Ruth Hoefs/Ron Pomije Farm (Farm shop)

Monday, June 27, 2022
Southern MN small grain plot tours—New Ulm
5–7 p.m.
Gieseke Farms

Monday, July 11, 2022
Northern MN small grain plot tours—Fergus Falls
9–11 a.m.
John Walkup Farm

Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Northern MN small grain plot tours—Oklee
9–11 a.m.
Swenson Seed Farm

Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Northern MN small grain plot tours—Humboldt
9–11 a.m.
Mark & Neil Wiese Farm

Friday, July 22, 2022
Northern MN small grain plot tours—Strathcona
1–3 p.m.
Jim Kukowkski Farm

For more information visit: https://extension.umn.edu/courses-and-events/small-grain-summer-plot-tours.


Small Grain Plot Tours—Strathcona

The Small Grain Summer Plot Tours provide farmers and crop consultants with the tools to make small grain production successful and profitable. University of Minnesota Extension small grain specialists and educators will present information on:

  • Production agronomics
  • Variety selection
  • Pest identification and management
  • Fungicide use

Small Grain Plot Tours—Humboldt

The Small Grain Summer Plot Tours provide farmers and crop consultants with the tools to make small grain production successful and profitable. University of Minnesota Extension small grain specialists and educators will present information on:

  • Production agronomics
  • Variety selection
  • Pest identification and management
  • Fungicide use