Wheat Production Program & Plot Tour – Wednesday, June 13

By Noel Mues, Extension Educator, Furnas County

 

A winter wheat meeting and plot tour is scheduled for 5:30 P.M., Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Join us for a “Hamburger Cookout” at the Ella Missing Community Center, 411 6^th Street, Arapahoe, NE. The Furnas County wheat variety plot is located on land farmed by Ron & Rex McClain, Beaver City. 

            Prior to touring the plot you will benefit from information on the following topics:

·         Production practices including: variety selection, research, disease management and other best wheat production practices.

·         The tour will include new winter wheat varieties, experimental varieties and many of the varieties being grown by producers along with varieties being used to measure progress in winter wheat variety development.

·         Certified Crop Advisors (CCA) can receive continuing education credits.

        To get to the plot go 3 miles west of Beaver City or 11 ½ miles south of Arapahoe on Hwy 283. You will see the plot signs located on the west side of the highway.

This is a no-till plot that was planted in corn stalks that were chem-fallowed and features side by side comparisons of 44 varieties. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about wheat variety performance and management in a no-till situation.

Resource persons include:

·         Dipak Santra, UNL Extension small grains/specialty crops breeder, PREC – Scottsbluff.

·         Greg Kruger, UNL Extension Cropping Systems, WCREC – North Platte

·         Stephen Wegulo, UNL Extension Plant Pathologist – Lincoln                                         

·         Noel Mues, UNL Extension Educator, WCREC – Furnas County

The tour is sponsored by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, Arrow Seed Co., Cargill, and TNT Farm Service. University of Nebraska variety performance trials are supported in part by grower check-off funds through a grant from the Nebraska Wheat Board. For more information feel free to contact us at the Extension Office in Furnas County, (308-268-3105) or nmues1@unl.edu.