1999 Potato & Small Grains Expo

February 9-10, 1999 - Fargodome

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Prairie Grains is the official publication of
the Minnesota
Association of
Wheat Growers,
North Dakota Grain Growers Association,
South Dakota Wheat, Inc., and the Minnesota Barley Growers Association.

Tuesday February 9, 1999

8:30 Coffee and registration

9:30 "Weed Control, Resistance, and Herbicide Carryover Concerns" —Dr.Richard Zollinger, NDSU Extension
Weed Specialist

10:00 "Building More Profitable Cropping Systems" — Dr. Zachary
Fore, NW MN Extension Cropping Systems Specialist

10:50 "Silver Scurf in Potatoes: Causes, Cures, Concerns" — Dr. Kiran Shetty, Novartis Crop Protection, Greensboro, North
Carolina and panel: Duane Myron, Grower, Thompson, ND; Steve
Tweton, Mgr, Nokota Packers, Buxton, ND; Paul Dolan, Mgr.
Associated Potato Growers Inc. Grand Forks, ND.

11:40 "Potato Winter Test Results, Minnesota And North Dakota" — Michael Horken, Minnesota Seed Department; Dr. H.M. El-Nashaar,
Dir. Potato Programs, North Dakota State Seed Department

1:30 "Farm Alarm: Coping With Stress" — By Partners For Farm
Health And Safety (Theater Presentation) MN Extension Service,
MN Department of Agriculture

WEDNESDAY February 10, 1999

8:30 Coffee and registration

9:30 "Potatoes and Chlorine Dioxide: What Do We Know?" — Dr.
Gary Secor, NDSU Plant Pathologist

10:00 "Fungicide Application For FHB (scab) on Small Grains" —
Dr. Marcia McMullen, NDSU Plant Pathologist

10:50 "Green Peach Aphids in Potatoes: A New Threat From An
Old Pest" — Dr. Dave Ragsdale, U of M Entomologist

11:20 "Developing A Grain Marketing Plan For 1999" — Michael
Lockhart and Sheldon Schmiess, Instructors With the NCTC Farm
Business Management Program

1:30 "Cowboy Logic Live" — Ryan Taylor, Rancher and Agweek Columnist