The Northwest Research and Outreach Center’s (NWROC) annual Crops and Soils Day is coming up this Wednesday, July 20, at the Northwest Research and Outreach Center’s Maintenance/Farm Operations building located south of Polk County Highway 71 on the Center’s campus, on the east side of the University of Minnesota Crookston Campus.
Crops and Soils Day is an opportunity for the NWORC to highlight and share some of the research they are doing on crops such as sugarbeets and small grains to help farmers and producers maintain profitability in ways that are environmentally sound and help agriculture thrive in Northwest Minnesota. “The Crops and Soils Day is an opportunity for the Northwest Research and Outreach Center to highlight some of the great research we are doing. It fulfills our research and outreach mission to supply timely and valuable information to the agriculture community of Northwest Minnesota and the broader state and region,” NWROC Director of Operations Maureen Aubol explained. “We have approximately 144 research trials at our north farm with about 16 different crops that we do research on. We work with principal investigators from other research and outreach centers, and those from the St. Paul Campus, as well as outstate collaborators such as NDSU.” The event is open to the public, and guests will hear from researchers from the Research Center here in Crookston and others from St. Paul and the North Dakota State University.
Registration and Continuing Education Unit (CEU) signups for the morning program begin at 7:30 a.m., with small grains tours beginning at 8:00 a.m., where guests will ride on buses out to the fields and transfer to wagons to hear presenters speak about their research in a variety of topics. “The different presentations that we will be having are everything from drainage installation to small grains, effects of tillage, rye’s seeding rates, enhanced disease resistance in wheat and barley, wheat breeding variety update, barley breeding research update, insect research as well as drug-free hemp research trials that will be for the morning tours,” Aubol explained. The tour will take about two hours, at which time they will be taken back to the campus for a quick coffee break before they can attend other presentations from other researchers. They will then take a break for lunch, which is provided to all guests at the event before they begin the tours for sugarbeets, which begin registration at 12:15 p.m. and the tours starting at 12:45 p.m. The tour will hold presentations about managing major sugarbeet diseases, sugarbeet tolerance, Ultra Blazer in sugarbeets, and interseeding cover crops into sugarbeets. The tour will end at approximately 2:15 p.m. CEU credits will be available at both sessions to all agronomists that require them. Many of the researchers giving presentations to the guests will be researchers from over ten research centers around the state and even from the North Dakota State University. “The researchers that we have are mostly researchers from the other research and outreach centers. We have ten research centers within the college of food, agriculture, and natural resource sciences. Then we have people from St. Paul that are coming as well, researchers that do research at our Center. Then in the afternoon, we have an NDSU researcher, Tom Peters, for the sugarbeet tours. He’s a well-known sugarbeet researcher. Then, of course, we have our own four faculty members of the research center as well, Ian MacRae, Lindsay Pease, Ashok Chanda, as well as Jochum Wiersma, that will be on hand.”
The NWROC’s annual Crops and Soils Day is open to the public and will be held in the Northwest Research and Outreach Center’s Maintenance/Farm Operations Building located south of Polk County Highway 71 on the east side of the University of Minnesota Crookston’s campus. Upon arrival, guests will be directed to parking across the street from NWORC’s office building, where parking is available. Signage will be posted around the campus, directing people to parking and tour registration. If you have questions about Crops and Soils Day or the tours, you can contact NWROC Executive Office and Administration Specialist Megan Benoit at 218-281-8610 or at mbenoit@umn.edu.
Please see the attached postcard for additional details below. Directions to the Farm Operations Building can also be found down below-
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