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Agronomy Day will feature
latest research
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[JULY
14, 2003]
URBANA --
Agronomy Day 2003 at the University of Illinois is scheduled for
Thursday, Aug. 21. The event features four tours on the latest
developments in agricultural research, as well as numerous tent
displays.
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This 47th consecutive Agronomy Day at
the U of I is a partnership among several academic units in College
of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The theme for
this year's event is "Agriculture at the Crossroads."
"This year, we have attempted to
highlight the many aspects of agriculture that so profoundly affect
everyone in the state," said Aaron Hager, U of I weed scientist and
Agronomy Day chairman. "While continuing to present the latest in
research for production agriculture, we have incorporated numerous
tour stops and tent displays that examine some of the hottest issues
for the public, from new crop disease and insect threats to the
efforts to reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment."
The Agronomy Day program will feature
four different tours of research projects. One tour will focus on
soybean rust, 50 years of research on supersweet corn,
scab-resistant wheat varieties, soybean planting dates and soybean
aphids. A second tour will cover soybean cyst nematodes, nitrogen
best management practices, secondary insect pests, soybean diseases
and corn hybrids with low aflatoxin in grain.
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Additional topics for a third tour
include control of winter annual weeds, multiple herbicide
resistance in waterhemp, resistance to European corn borers, western
corn rootworms and improving corn yield with less nitrogen inputs. A
final tour will feature managing diseases in vegetable crops,
Illinois fruit crops, variable rate control in manure application,
atmospheric transport of hog odor and controlling fertilizer
applications.
The Agronomy Day activities will be at
the Crop Sciences Research and Education Center, which is located
south of the U of I's main Urbana-Champaign campus off St. Mary's
Road on Wright Street extended.
Agronomy Day will begin at 7 a.m.
Hour-long wagon tours around the research plots will repeat every
half hour as groups are available. The last tour will leave at noon.
Lunch will be provided at a nominal charge.
For
additional information about Agronomy Day 2003, please call Sharon
Conatser at (217) 333-4256.
[University
of Illinois news release]
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