The annual NDSU Extension Best of the Best in Wheat and Soybean Research meetings will be held Wednesday, Feb. 5, at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and on Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Courtyard by Marriot in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Both days the doors open at 8 a.m. and the program starts at 8:20 a.m.
This year’s agenda will provide updates on new soybean insect pests to monitor, small grain disease management, early-season soybean seedling diseases and an update to changes happening at the federal level regarding pesticide labeling and pesticide applicator certification.
“We are pleased to announce that this popular program will continue with support from the North Dakota Wheat Commission, the Minnesota Research and Promotion Council, and the Soybean Councils of North Dakota and Minnesota,” says Clair Keene, NDSU Extension agronomist for small grains and corn. “We have some new names on our program including Dr. Ana Carcedo, the new NDSU Extension broadleaf crop agronomist and Linda Johns, Associate Director for the Pesticide Safety and Environmental Education Program, University of Minnesota Extension. Dr. Jochum Wiersma of UMN Crookston will discuss spring wheat variety selection and management and Dr. Frayne Olson, NDSU Extension crop marketing specialist, will give his always-informative crop market outlook.”