Minnehaha Conservation District

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We wanted to remind you of these two great workshops and SDSU’s 57th Annual Summer Field Day! Hurry and register! You won’t want to miss these!

Also, South Dakota State University’s Southeast Research Farm will host its 57th Annual Summer Field Day from 1:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on July 10 at the farm located at 29974 University Road, Beresford, SD.

Field tours start at 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Indoor presentations will begin at 3:30 p.m.

The field day will feature plot tours highlighting projects and research happening on the farm, as well as presentations and demonstrations by SDSU faculty and SDSU Extension staff.

The featured speaker for the tour is Loran Steinlage, an innovative Iowa farmer who has evolved from practicing conventional tillage to strip till to no-till with cover crops, all while building soil health and revenue. He will be giving a presentation entitled, “How to Improve Soil Health and Profitability with Cover Crops and No-Till” at 5:40 p.m.

Tentative tour schedule and topics:

• Corn and Soybean Herbicide Demonstrations: Paul Johnson, SDSU Extension weed science coordinator.

• Oat Varieties: Melanie Caffe, SDSU assistant professor, oat breeding.

• Oat Nitrogen: Anthony Bly, SDSU Extension soils field specialist.

• Soybean Insect Pests: Adam Varenhorst, SDSU assistant professor & SDSU Extension specialist field crop entomologist.

• Soybean Disease Update: Emmanuel Byamukama, SDSU assistant professor & SDSU Extension plant pathologist.

• Soybean Management for Yield and Grain Quality: Péter Kovács, SDSU assistant professor, ag cropping systems.

• Rye Cover Crop and Tile Drainage: Peter Sexton, SDSU Southeast Farm supervisor/plant science.

• Annual Forages: Sara Bauder, SDSU Extension agronomy field specialist.

• Rotation and Grazing: Sandeep Kumar, SDSU plant science assistant professor, soil biophysics and management.

• Oat – Palisade: David Karki, SDSU Extension agronomy field specialist.

• Corn – N Timing: Jason Clark, SDSU Extension soil fertility specialist; Péter Kovács, SDSU assistant professor, ag cropping systems.

• Soybean Planting Date: Graig Reicks, SDSU plant science.

• Indoor Presentations will begin at 3:30 p.m.

• Marketing Trends: Jack Davis, SDSU Extension crops business management field specialist.

• Ag Weather Tools: Laura Edwards, SDSU state climatologist.

• Drainage Water Management: John McMaine, SDSU ag engineering assistant professor & SDSU Extension water management engineer.

• Root Rot of Corn: Febina Mathew, SDSU assistant professor & field crops pathologist; Paul Okello, SDSU plant science.

The field day and workshop are free of charge and everyone is encouraged to attend. For more information about the SDSU Southeast Research Farm Summer Field Day and No-Till and Interseeding Workshop, contact Ruth Stevens at 605-563-2989.