UW Pest Management Field Day

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Arlington Agricultural Research Station

You are invited to our fifth annual Pest Management Field Day, which features an array of information from our UW Weed Science, Entomology, and Plant Pathology research projects. It’s also a great opportunity to visit with these researchers and each other about current management issues. We hope that you can attend.   Please spread the word regarding the Field Day to your co-workers.

Schedule of Events                                                           

8:00     Coffee                Public Events Building

8:30     Load tour bus

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

Disease management: Paul Esker, field crop plant pathologist, will show case trials with early season corn and soybean diseases and discuss their identification and management. 

Insect management: Eileen Cullen, field crop entomologist, will highlight aphid resistant soybeans and threshold research along with 2009 field crop updates on other insect pests.     

11:30   Formal tour ends                                                                                        

The tour will end at the corn and soybean herbicide demo area for people who wish to view these plots. The bus will shuttle people back 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 Dan Heider and Russ Groves 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: 2.5 hours requested

Directions: The Arlington Research Station is located about 20 miles north of Madison. From the south, exit I-90 onto US 51. The station (and sign) is on the west side of US 51. From the north, exit I-90 onto Hwy 60; drive east to Arlington and south on US 51. The Public Events Building and parking is at the south end of the station’s complex.