North Dakota State University’s Carrington Research Extension Center (CREC) held its annual row crop program virtually this summer because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pre-recorded videos are available at https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/CarringtonREC/videos.
Topics and NDSU speakers for this year’s program are:
- Incorporating cover crops into corn – Mike Ostlie, CREC research agronomist
- Impact of nitrogen fertilizer rates on corn and dollar return in low- and high-yield environments – Jasper Teboh, CREC soil scientist
- Dry bean breeding program and variety review – Juan Osorno, dry bean breeder
- Black, navy and pinto bean plant populations and row spacings – Endres
- Pollinator potential impact on dry beans – Savannah Adams, graduate student
- Optimizing fungicide spray droplet size for improved management of white mold in dry beans – Michael Wunsch, CREC plant pathologist
- Soybean cyst nematode considerations for dry beans and soybeans – Sam Markell, Extension plant pathologist
- Considerations for soybean variety selection – Hans Kandel, Extension agronomist
- Prospects for managing Sclerotinia head rot in sunflowers – Wunsch
- Susceptibility of sunflowers to Sclerotinia head rot relative to growth stage – Wunsch
