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This year’s North Dakota State University Williston Research Extension Center (WREC) dryland and irrigated field days will be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Producers and others will be able view the center researchers’ work by watching short prerecorded videos shot on location. The videos will be available starting July 8 at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/willistonrec.

Topics for this year’s field day and the presenters are:

• Irrigation in western North Dakota – Tyler Tjelde, WREC irrigation agronomist
• Intercropping peas/canola and chickpeas/flax – Justin Jacobs, WREC irrigation research specialist
• Pipeline Reclamation Project – Meridith Miller, WREC dryland research specialist, and Nick Birkhimer, NDSU graduate research assistant
• Application of unmanned aircraft systems in small plot experiments – Gautam Pradhan, WREC dryland agronomist
• Dryland variety trials – Cameron Wahlstrom, WREC dryland research specialist
• Ascochyta blight on chickpeas – Audrey Kalil, WREC plant pathologist
• Fusarium root rot – Taheni Gargouri-Jbir, WREC plant pathology research specialist
• WREC horticulture garden – Kyla Splichal, WREC horticulture research specialist
• Kernza: a new dual-use crop for the MonDak region or intercropping chickpeas and flax – Clair Keene, WREC Extension cropping systems specialist
• WREC foundation seed program – Kyle Dragseth, WREC foundation seed/farm manager
• WREC foundation seed conditioning facility update – Jerry Bergman, WREC director, and Tom Wheeler, WREC-EARC (Montana State University’s Eastern Agricultural Research Center) Joint Advisory Board chairman

For more information, contact Kelly Stehr at 701-774-4315 or kelly.stehr@ndsu.edu.