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PNW
STEEP II EXTENSION
CONSERVATION
FARMING UPDATE - MAY1996
June 18 Direct
Seeding Drill Demo and Research Field Day on Direct Seeding CRP Take-out
and Spring Recropping
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Cooperative Feature of the Monsanto Fields of Tomorrow –
Research trials on
direct seeding for CRP take-out and spring recropping, and direct seeding
demonstrations with 5 drill will be featured in a field day near Waterville,
WA on June 18, 1996. It is part of the Monsanto’s “Fields of Tomorrow”
field day program in cooperation with Washington State University, University
of Idaho and a number of area grower groups, and Ag support agencies and
industries.
The trials and Fields
of Tomorrow program are located about 11 miles east of Waterville off
Highway 2 on the Tony Viebrock farm (2 miles west of Farmer and ˝ miles
south). The field site is in an 11-inch annual rainfall zone and its 9th
year of CRP crested wheatgrass. Hard red spring wheat was seeded April
18 with 5 direct seeding drills and air seeders, and under a conventional
tillage system. Direct seeding implements include: Concord airseeder;
Flexicoil 5000 and 1330 airseeders; John Deere 750 disc drill; and John
Deere HZ deep furrow drill. The conventional tillage operations included
a discing, conventional fertilizer injection, second discing, and seeding
with the John Deere HZ drill. The trial is repeated in undisturbed CRP
grass, CRP grass cut and chopped with a combine in fall 1995, and in spring
wheat stubble.
Direct seeding demonstrations
will be conducted adjacent to their April-seeded research trials in undisturbed
grass, combine-flailed grass and standing spring wheat stubble. Copies
of a March 1996 preliminary summary of a WSU statewide research project
on management considerations for returning CRP land to crop production
will be available at the field day.
Registration and
refreshments begin at 8:00 a.m. Drill demonstrations and tours of the
CRP take-out and spring recropping trials are from 9:00 to 12:30. Other
morning tour topics include Monsanto’s new experimental selective cheatgrass
herbicide, biotechnology field exhibits of Roundup Ready soybeans and
Canola, and CRP weed control with Roundup Ultra RT.
A complimentary
lunch catered by Longhorn Barbecue is scheduled from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Presentations are planned from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. A panel on direct seeding
and annual cropping include three producers: Darrel Oech - Beach, ND;
Larry Wood - Joplin, MT, and Dale and Gary Galbreath - Ritzville WA; and
Dr. Kim Kidwell, WSU Spring Wheat Breeder, Pullman, WA. Two Monsanto representatives
will give presentations on aspects of farming in the future. Dr. Dan Gigax,
Commercial Development Manager of Biotechnology, will speak on biotechnology
and the small grain producer, and Dr. Tom Hoogheem, Environmental Operations
Director will speak on pesticides, sustainability and the environment.
Refreshments and
an open forum are planned from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. The program offers 5
credits for Washington pesticide applicator recertification and 8 credits
for Certified Crop Adviser continuing education. See your Monsanto retailer
for preregistration and bus travel information on Fields of Tomorrow.
For more information on the CRP take-out and spring recropping research
trials, and the statewide Washington CRP take-out project, contact Roger
Veseth, WSU/UI Conservation Tillage Specialist, at 208-885-6386.
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