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Volume
3 Issue 2
May 23, 2006
Small Grain Crop Staging & Management
Clinics
Producers are invited to participate in upcoming
University of Minnesota Extension Small Grain Staging &
Management Clinics to be held at various locations in June
in Northwest Minnesota. University of Minnesota Crop
Specialists and Extension Educators will be on hand, to
answer 2006 growing season concerns, questions and to
exchange information. The Clinics will be hands-on; with
producers encouraged to bring in wheat and barley samples
for evaluation of crop stage and participate in a
discussion of management decisions related to stage of
growth. Recognizing the proper crop stage is important in
disease identification and the timing associated with the
application of crop protection chemicals. Crop stages of
tillering, boot, flag leaf and flowering will be discussed
with a focus on the diseases of tan spot, leaf rust and
scab.
Planned clinic times and locations are:
Lake Park, MN
Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Lake Park City Center
Comstock, MN
Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:00a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location to be announced
later
Gary, MN
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:00 – 11 :00 a.m.
Triangle Ag. Complex
The topics at these clinics will not be limited to
staging, as an open discussion is encouraged on all small
grain management issues such as; seeding, plant
populations, fertility, genetics, insect and weed
pressures, and pre-harvest herbicides.
Producers are encouraged to bring in plant samples,
comments, concerns and questions and join us at one of the
Small Grain Crop Staging & Management Clinics. For more
information, please contact:
Will Yliniemi, Hubbard/Becker County Extension
Educator at 218-732-3391, 218-846-7328 or
218-252-1042, or by email at: ylini003@umn.edu .
Rick Abrahamson, Clay County Extension Educator
at 218-299-5020, or by email at: abrah195@umn.edu .
Ray Bisek, Norman/Mahnomen County Extension
Educator at 218-784-7183 or 218-935-2226, or by email
at: bisek001@umn.edu
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