SCAL Field Day will be held at 851 Highway 6 near Harvard.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s South Central Agricultural Laboratory (SCAL) field day is Thursday, Aug. 8. The field day focuses on improving crop production and profitability with research-based, practical information shared by University of Nebraska educators, specialists, staff and students. The event is designed so those attending can select the tours they are most interested in. A demonstration is included that provides the opportunity to see real-time, camera-based weed detection technology with the John Deere See and Spray.
Topics and presenters include:
Irrigation Management Technologies for Irrigation Scheduling
Saleh Taghvaeian, Irrigation Specialist and Steve Melvin, Extension Educator
Disease Management Corn and Soybean Disease Updates
Tamra Jackson-Ziems and Dylan Mangel, Extension Plant Pathologists
Weed Management Cover Crop for Weed Suppression in Corn and Soybean: Planting Green and Intercropping
Amit Jhala, Weed Management Specialist
Nitrogen/Fertigation Management Demo Site: Optimizing Nitrogen Use Efficiency
via Sensor-based Fertigation
Katie Bathke, Research Technician and Joe Luck, Biological Systems Engineering
Insect Management and Conservation Features
Matheus Ribeiro, Extension Educator and Ron Seymour, Extension Educator
Nitrogen/Fertigation Management Demo Site: Optimizing Nitrogen Use Efficiency via Sensor-based Fertigation
Katie Bathke, Research Technician and Joe Luck, Biological Systems Engineering
Insect Management and Conservation Features
Matheus Ribeiro, Extension Educator and Ron Seymour, Extension Educator
The event begins with registration at 8:30 a.m., followed by opening remarks by Derek McLean, dean of UNL’s Agricultural Research Division at 8:45 a.m. Tours of research sites will follow. Dr. J. David Aiken, Water & Agricultural Law Specialist, UNL Department of Agricultural Economics will give the keynote address, “Carbon Market Considerations for Farmers” during lunch. Those attending can also see research & equipment used for targeted herbicide application with the See & Spray™ technology provided by AKRS Equipment.
SCAL is located at 851 Hwy. 6, near Harvard, NE.
Details, map and registration are available at https://go.unl.edu/scalfieldday. There is no cost to attend the field day, but participants are asked to pre-register before Aug. 7 for planning purposes.
For more information, call (402)762-3536 or e-mail shachtel1@unl.edu. Continuing Education Units have been applied for and are pending.
