Missed going to North Dakota State University (NDSU) research center field days this summer?You can now get to them all this winter – from the comfort of your office.
NDSU has launched a Web site features video shot from 2003 Field Days throughout the state. A text version is also available.
The video and text is available at the NDSU Research Extension Center Web site at:
www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/research.htm. Click on 2003 Field Days. Or go to the Web site www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/afsnr/rec-days/index.html.
You can find information on the site about a wide variety of topics, from cattle to the latest crop varieties. You also can choose whether you would like to view the videos from a particular Research Extension Center such as Carrington or by topic, such as wheat or barley. The researchers involved and their topics include:
- Bob Henson, Carrington REC – Chickpea and niger thistle
- Chet Hill, Williston REC -- Value added agriculture
- Chip Poland, Dickinson REC – Lay farming concept and utilizing pastures to shorten beef cattle confinement time.
- Dave Franzen, NDSU soil scientist – Soil management and intensive wheat.
- Dean Steele, NDSU agricultural engineering – Furrow and hill potatoes.
- Elias Elias, NDSU durum breeder – Durum varieties.
- Eric Ericksmoen, Hettinger REC – Increasing canola production and twin row corn.
- Greg Endres, Carrington REC – Intensive wheat management.
- Jan Knodel, North Central REC in Minot – Canola late season pests and grasshoppers.
- Jerry Franckowiak, NDSU barley breeder – Barley crops.
- Jim Hammond, NDSU flax breeder – Neche flax.
- Jimmie Richardson, NDSU soil scientist – Root development.
- Lee Manske, Dickinson REC – Grazing management practices.
- Luis Del Rio, NDSU dry bean pathologist – Dry bean diseases.
- Marcelo Carena, NDSU corn breeder – Goals of the cornbreeding program.
- Mark Halvorson, North Central REC in Minot – Ascochyta blight control in chickpea and pulse crops.
- Mike McMullen, NDSU oat breeder – Characteristics of newer oat varieties.
- Paul Schwarz, NDSU barley quality chemist – Malting barley quality.
- Randy Mehlhoff, Langdon REC – New facility at the Center.
- Rich Horsley, NDSU barley breeder – New six-row varieties.
- Roger Ashley, Dickinson REC – Soil-borne pathogens in winter wheat.
- Ron Smith, NDSU horticulturist – Various horticultural topics.
- Stephen Neate, NDSU barley pathologist – Barley diseases.
- Vern Anderson, Carrington REC – Economics of wheat straw in cattle pens and using fly ash in feedlots.
- Vern Hofman, NDSU agricultural engineer – New sprayer concepts for disease control.
- Doug Landblom, Dickinson REC – Creep feeding.
- Kevin Sedivec, NDSU range management specialist – Drought management and native and tame grass management.
- Mohamed Mergoum, NDSU hard red spring wheat breeder – Wheat variety performance.
- Phil Glogoza, NDSU entomologist – European corn bore and soybean aphid management.
- Doug Landblom, Dickinson REC – Weaning transitions and other projects