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ND – (NewsDakota.com) Farmers, crop advisers and agricultural industry representatives will have an opportunity to view field research trials and receive production recommendations on corn, soybeans and dry edible beans at a field tour on Thursday, Aug. 25, at the North Dakota State University Carrington Research Extension Center. Registration will start at 4 p.m. and the tour will begin at 4:30.

Tour topics are:

* Best combination of corn hybrid relative maturity and plant populations.

* Corn end-of-season plant development and management.

* Soybean variety selection and planting dates.

* NDSU dry bean breeding program and 2016 production updates.

* Dry bean plant establishment and nutrient management.

* Overview of soybean and dry bean disease management, with an emphasis on white
mold and soybean cyst nematode.

* Review of research on improving foliar fungicide coverage and dry bean seed
treatment.

Tour speakers include NDSU Extension Service specialists and North Dakota
Agricultural Experiment Station scientists Juan Osorno, dry bean breeder; Greg
Endres, Hans Kandel and Mike Ostlie, agronomists; and Sam Markell and Michael
Wunsch, plant pathologists.

A supper sponsored by associated North Dakota commodity organizations will
follow the tour.

Continuing education credits will be available for certified crop advisers
participating in the event.

Additional information about the tour is available from the Carrington center at
701-652-2951 or https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC.