Crop issues will be among the topics covered during this year’s Central Dakota Ag Day program. (NDSU photo)
CARRINGTON, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Information from producers, landowners, farmers, and more will be abundant at the upcoming Central Dakota Ag Day in Carrington on Thursday, December 16th.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about crop production, weed management, carbon credits, grazing strategies, veterinary issues, and crop and livestock market outlooks during the daylong agricultural program at the Carrington Research Extension Center (CREC).
Stutsman County Extension Agent Alicia Harstad.
Central Dakota Ag Day will also offer 18 concurrent seminars by NDSU faculty, Extension agents, and specialists. Certified crop advisors can receive continuing education units (CEUs) for many of the seminars.
The day will wrap up with NDSU Extension crops economist Frayne Olson on a one-hour general session titled “Incorporating Flexibility and Resilience into Crop Marketing Plans.”
Sponsors of the program include the North Dakota Corn Utilization Council, North Dakota Soybean Council and crop improvement associations in the six counties.
Other topics to be covered include:
- Cereal research: hard red spring wheat varieties, durum intensive management, two-row barley nitrogen
- I have selected my herbicide; now how do I kill weeds?
- Wild and woolly kochia
- Cover crops and intercropping
- There’s an NDSU app for that!
- Web mapping as a production tool
- Pasture recovery after drought
- What to plant to avoid high nitrate feed
- Avoiding calving difficulties through nutrition
- Calf vaccinations: Who, what, where, when and why
- Marketing with beef certification programs
- Livestock marketing outlook
- 12 tools for your wellness toolbox in times of farm stress
- Healthy soil increases resiliency in crop production
- Carbon offsets: considerations for North Dakota farmers
- What can Extension do for you?
- Mitigating risk doesn’t have to be complicated
- How young is too young to start farming?
No registration is required. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Gale at 701-652-2581 or jeff.gale@ndsu.edu.
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