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YOU ARE INVITED TO THE
Malheur Experiment Station
2008 Treasure Valley Weed
Tour
Presented by the OSU
Malheur
Experiment Station
June 5, 2008 from 9 AM - noon
Pesticide
recertification credits are being requested for
Crops
visited during the tour will include onions, sugar beets, field corn,
alfalfa, and yellow nutsedge biology. There will be an
opportunity to visit a potato study that is being conducted on a grower
field for those interested.
Complimentary lunch
will be served.
Please reserve lunch
by calling Janet Jones
(541) 889-2174
Or emailing her at janet.jones@oregonstate.edu
Malheur Experiment
Station
595 Onion Ave.
Ontario, OR 97914
Presented by the OSU
Malheur
Experiment Station
July 9, 2008 from 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Complimentary lunch will be served.
Please reserve lunch
by calling Janet Jones
(541) 889-2174
Or emailing her at janet.jones@oregonstate.edu
Malheur Experiment
Station
595 Onion Ave.
Ontario, OR 97914
Tours
10:30 - 12:00
Tours
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:15-2:30
Tours
Tour A: Weed Control. Participants learned about weed
control in
Roundup Ready Sugar beets and options for the control of yellow
nutsedge.
Tour B: Drip Irrigation, “Permanent” Drip
Irrigation and Wildflower Seed Production
Participants
learned
various applications of drip irrigation including the possibilities of
“permanent” drip irrigation and wildflower seed production.
Hosts for this
tour were Hilary Parkinson, Jim Klauzer, Erik Feibert, and Clint Shock.
Tour C: Onion Production. Participants
learned about iris
yellow spot virus, thrips control including biological control, thrips
movement, thrips resistance to insecticides, onion varieties,
irrigation criteria and scheduling, drip irrigation, and the use of PAM
to control erosion.
Hosts for this
tour were Lynn Jensen, Erik Feibert, Jim Klauzer, Krishna Mohan,
Chelsey
Iida, Clint Shock, and Ashley Saunders.
Tour D: Cereal Tour. This tour
viewed the Waxy and Conventional
Barley Variety Trial, Optimizing Nitrogen Rate and Use of Ethephon in
Waxy Barley Trial, and the Waxy Wheat Variety Trial and the Oregon
Winter Elite Yield Trial of soft white winter wheat.
Hosts for this tour were
Steve Norberg, John Hamilton, Eric Eldredge, and Heather Noble.
Tour E: Tour E: Saving Electricity: Operating
Motors Efficiently on Single-Phase Power
Participants
learned about how to run efficient three phase electrical motors
on single phase power without a phase converter.
Hosts for this
tour were Otto Smith and Phyllis Smith.
Cooperating to bring you Field Days include the OSU
Malheur Experiment Station, OSU
Malheur County Extension Service, University of Idaho, Malheur County Soil and Water
Conservation
District, Malheur Watershed Council, Owyhee Watershed Council, USDA
NRCS, and the Lower Willowcreek
Working Group.
Presented by the OSU Malheur
Experiment Station
August 26, 2008 from 9 AM to 1 PM
Complimentary lunch will be
served.
In 2007 lunch featured fantastic "onion
blooms".
Please reserve lunch by
calling
Janet Jones
Malheur Experiment Station
595 Onion Ave.
Ontario OR 97914
(541) 889-2174
Malheur Agricultural Experiment
Station
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