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Eastern SD Soil and Water Research Farm Field Day
July 11, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
What: Eastern South Dakota Soil and Water Research Farm 29th Annual Field Day
When: Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Where: 3714 Western Ave, Brookings, SD 57006
- 9:30 a.m. Registration
- 10:00 a.m. Intro and Poster Session
- 10:30 a.m. Walking Tour
- 12:00 Complimentary Meal
Integrated Cropping Systems Research at NCARL
Poster Session
- Pest and beneficial insect research projects – Eric Beckendorf, ARS
- Crop rotation shapes soil microbial communities – Sonya Erlandson and Mike Lehman, ARS
- Which oat? How varieties affect agronomics and economics – Patrick Ewing, ARS
- History and purpose of the Eastern South Dakota Soil and Water Research Farm – Gordon Heber, ESDSWRF
- History and impact of the Alternative Rotation Experiment – Shannon Osborne, ARS
- Monsters inside me: beneficial nematodes for insect pest management – Adrian Pekarcik, ARS
- Bumble bees in agroecosystems: current and future research – Karl Roeder, ARS
- Restoring productivity to severely eroded soils by replacing topsoil – Sharon Schneider and Apurba Sutradhar, ARS
- Soil microbes, the dirty secrets, supporting soil and plant health – Chuntao Yin, ARS
Walking Tour
- Building a better oat – Patrick Ewing, ARS
- Belowground biodiversity – Adrian Pekarcik, ARS
- Plant-soil Feedbacks – Chuntao Yin, ARS
Directions to the Research Farm: 3714 Western Avenue: Exit 133 off I-29 (Hwy 14 Bypass), 2.5 miles west to Western Avenue; 1.5 miles north.
Rain? Presentations will be held in the machine shed at the Farm.
For more information contact USDA-ARS, 605-693-3241 – https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/brookings-sd/ncarl/
