2024 MI Wheat Program Wheat Field Day

MSU Saginaw Valley Research & Extension Center, 3775 S. Reese Rd., Frankenmuth.

Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | 8:15 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

8:15 a.m. — Registration, Coffee & Donuts

8:15 a.m. — Plant Diagnostics Jan Byrne, MSU Plant Diagnostics Center
(Bring your plants with you to field day for diagnosis)

9:00 a.m. — Welcome and Introductions, Jeff Krohn, MI Wheat Program Chairman

9:05 a.m. — Morning Plot Presentations via wagon tour (20 minute stops)

Weed Control – Christy Sprague
High Management & Plant Growth Regulators – Dennis Pennington
Clover Cover Crop & Herbicide Interactions – Monica Jean
Fertility and Disease Management – Kurt Steinke & Marty Chilvers

Late Morning Plot Presentations via wagon tour (20 minute stops)

Canopy Cover – Manni Singh
Variety Release Work – Eric Olson
Nematode Trap Crop work – Marisol Quintanilla

12:30 p.m. — Lunch

1:30 p.m. — Michigan Wheat Crop Harvest Expectations/Reminders, Dennis Pennington

2:00 p.m. — Awarding of RUP (2) & CCA (2) Credits & Adjourn

About the Michigan Wheat Program

The Michigan Wheat Program is a state-check off program voted in by the state’s wheat farmers to assess each bushel of wheat grown and sold. The funds from the program are utilized to further the wheat industry in the state benefitting the state’s nearly 8,000 wheat farmers who grow about 450,000 acres of wheat annually producing about a 40 million bushel crop.

Summer Field Day registration

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P.O. Box 25065
Lansing, MI 48909
1-888-943-2801

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