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6th Annual SDSU Extension Specialty Crop Field Day
September 15 @ 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Save the Date for the 6th Annual SDSU Extension Specialty Crop Field Day-
- Sept 15th, 2026
- 4:30-8:00 PM CDT
- SDSU Campus Specialty Crop Field – South Brookings
Contact Kristine Lange – 605-688-5796 or kristine.lang@sdstate.edu
Schedule-
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- 4:30 p.m. Educational Booths and Poster Display Open
4:50 p.m. Welcome and Evening Overview
5:00 p.m. Specialty Crop Research Tour
1.Sizzling High Tunnel Heat Management Strategies for 11 Lettuce Cultivars2.Double Trouble & Sticky Situations! Grafted Tomatoes with Foliar Molasses3.Floral and Gour(d)geous: Cut Flower Succession and Fall Gourd Trials4.A Wild Approach to Field Grown Tomatoes with Cover Crops + Grafting5.Squashing problems: Cucurbit Foliar Diseases6.Some like it hot: Alternaria Internal Rot of Peppers
Self-guided Stops During Supper: - 1. Plant Pest on the Prairies: Aster Yellows2.Get Pumped! Small, Medium, and Large Pumpkin Trials
6:15 PM Picnic Supper, visit with Educational Booth Exhibitors, and Networking
7:00 p.m. Closing Remarks + Tour Part II Overview
7:15 PM Tours1.How to Build and Maintain Caterpillar Tunnels with Cody Molnar2.SDSU Local Foods Education Center with Ginger McNickle + SDSU LFEC Students Note Alternate Location: 1600 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD 57007
8:00 p.m. Field Day Concludes
- 4:30 p.m. Educational Booths and Poster Display Open