UW Pest Management Field Day

July 20, 2006

Arlington Agricultural Research Station

You are invited to the third annual Pest Management Field Day, which features an array of information from our UW Weed Science, Entomology, and Plant Pathology research projects.  The field day will start with a tour leaving from the Public Events Building.  Please feel free to spread the word regarding the field day or bring a friend.  We hope you can attend.  

Schedule of Events                                                            

8:00                    Coffee                                                      

8:30          Load tour wagons

                  Visit field experiments that highlight developments with new and existing field corn, sweet corn and soybean herbicides and other weed management practices.  Weed management information will be presented by Chris Boerboom and Dave Stoltenberg.

                  Hear Eileen Cullen and Craig Grau share their latest observations and management information on insect pests and diseases of corn and soybean. 

                  Meet Jed Colquhoun, the new UW Extension Weed Scientist in Horticulture, and learn about his new weed management projects.

11:00       Formal tour ends    

                 The tour will end at the corn and soybean herbicide demo area for people who wish to view these plots.  Wagons will shuttle people to the Public Events Building until lunch. You are also invited to return to any of the other trials viewed during the tour at this time.    

12:00       Lunch ($10)               Public Events Building 

Afternoon     

                  Tour vegetable and IR-4 experiments with Jed Colquhoun and Dan Heider at the Horticulture Farm. 

                  Tour any of the field experiments and demonstrations listed in the Field Day Booklet or visit with UW faculty and staff about specific trials.

CCA Credits:  2 hours requested