12 noon – Registration, Check-In.
12:30 p.m. – Plant Disease Identification Station. Participants invited to bring wheat samples for diagnosis of disease or injury, Dr. Jan Byrne, MSU Diagnostic Services
Handout: Wheat Sampling Instructions
1 p.m. – Welcome and Introductions, Jeff Krohn, MI Wheat Program Chairman
1:10 p.m. – Plot Presentations via Wagon Tour
1. Managing FHB risk with resistant varieties, Dr. Eric Olson
Handout: Managing FHB Risk With Resistant Varieties
2. Wheat disease management and update, Dr. Marty Chilvers, Keeley Satterfield, Gloria Baker
Handout: Michigan Wheat Virus Survey
Handout: Fungicide Efficacy for Control of Wheat Diseases
3. Wheat agronomy: optimizing planting decisions, Patrick Copeland, Wallas da Silva, Paulo Arias, Dr. Manni Singh
Handout: Wheat Agronomy: Optimizing Planting Decisions
Poster: 2025 Michigan Wheat Field Day Poster
4. Key growth stages and timing of management, Dennis Pennington
Watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v–9kc0fAJs&t=524s
5. Fall vs. Spring herbicide applications: What is the best option? Dr. Christy Sprague, Kaddi Gewirtz
Handout: Fall Herbicide Applications and Wheat Planting Date
6. Soil Fertility: more inputs or the right inputs, Dr. Kurt Steinke, Lane Suplito
4:15 p.m. – Evaluation and RUP/CCA Credits, Jenna Falor, MSU Extension
4:30 p.m. – Walking Tour of Plots at Mason Research Farm, 1614 Okemos Rd., Mason
1. It’s a Cover Up: wheat canopy closure, Dr. Manni Singh, Palo Aries
2. Developing new wheat varieties for Michigan, Dr. Eric Olson
3. Wheat varieties available to Michigan wheat growers, Dennis Pennington, Dr. Eric Olson
5:30 p.m. – Adjourn
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.