6/12/07 Lot's of field days

Farm and Ranch June 12, 2007 It is the time of year for plot tours and field days. In Oregon today is the Pendleton Ag Research Center Field Day which is followed tomorrow by the Sherman Station Field Day in Moro. Also on Wednesday in Washington is the Organic Dryland Cropping Systems Field Day at the Palouse Conservation Farm near Pullman. That gets underway at 6 p.m. Among other things, growers will see research on weed control with conservation tillage and field-scale organic cropping systems. This Thursday in Idaho is the University of Idaho Weed Science Tour which begins at the Best Western University Inn in Moscow at 7:30 am. Also this Thursday in Washington is the 91st annual Lind Field Day. Bill Schillinger of Washington State University summarizes the day's activities. Schillinger: "Registration starts at 8:30 and the field tours start at nine. We have six stops on the field tour and those include winter wheat breeding, club wheat breeding, spring wheat breeding. A session on camelina which is a new potential oilseed crop that many people are excited about and want to take a closer look at here in the Pacific Northwest. We have a session fertility management for late planted winter wheat and also another session on root lesion nematodes." There is a hosted lunch at noon with updates by WSU officials, lawmakers and wheat industry leaders. The day wraps up with an ice cream social. Pesticide recertification and Certified Crop Advisor credits are available at the field day. I'm Bob Hoff and that's the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on the Northwest Ag Information Network.