The Annual Fall Field Day at the ISU Northeast Research and Demonstration Farm will run from 1:00 to 4:30 PM on Wednesday, August 24. Lisa Schulte Moore, ISU professor of natural resource ecology and management, will kick-off the program, by providing her insights on carbon markets titled “Carbon Science for Carbon Markets: Emerging Opportunities in Iowa”. Erin Hodgson, extension entomologist, and Ashley Dean, education extension specialist, will discuss corn rootworm and resistance management. Bill Long, field agronomist with Pioneer, will discuss the new technology of stacked traits with RNAi (SmartStax PRO® from Bayer & Vorceed™ Enlist® corn from Corteva) for corn rootworm control. Dan Anderson, ag engineering specialist, will give an update on water quality research being conducted, including cover crops and manure trials. Steve Harris, department chair plant pathology and microbiology and entomology, will discuss the latest on sudden death syndrome in soybeans, treatments, and current soybean disease trends to be aware of for the 2022 growing season.
The field day is free and open to the public. It starts at the Borlaug Learning Center Headquarters on the ISU Northeast Research Farm and Demonstration Farm. Directions: From Nashua at the Jct. of Hwy 218 (Exit 220) and Co. Rd. B60, go west on B60 1.1 miles to Windfall Ave., then south 1 mile to 290th St., then east 0.2 miles to the farm. CCA credits will be available. For more information about the event, call Terry Basol at 641-426-6801; or Josh Michel at 563-581-7828.
