Job Openings: Dry Bean Research Specialists
The Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University is seeking two research specialists to assist in the dry bean breeding/genetics program. Candidates are expected to participate in all the field, greenhouse, and laboratory activities involved in a breeding program. This includes the planning, organizing, and conducting of experiments under the supervision of […]
NDSU Greenhouse Renamed
The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Research Greenhouse Complex at North Dakota State University (NDSU) has a new name. The greenhouse, which is on the west side of the NDSU campus, now is the Jack Dalrymple Agricultural Research Complex. The complex was constructed using a combination of state dollars and private donations totaling $33.5 […]
New Research on Western Bean Cutworms
New research on the feeding habits of the Western bean cutworm has found that careful consideration of pest control is needed when growing dry beans next to corn to prevent resistance development to insecticides and toxins. Normally, refuge crops are planted so that pests such as the Western bean cutworm, which is actually a moth, […]
Pulse Crop Research Proposals Being Sought
The Pulse Crop Health Initiative has announced the opening of its current funding cycle, seeking submissions for research proposals for fiscal year 2021 funding. PCHI is a special project, funded through the Farm Bill, with approximately $4.3 million available in grants for FY 21. Most projects funded are at the level of $60,000 to $100,000 (per institution […]
Specialty Crop Block Grants Awarded for Dry Bean Research
The North Dakota Department of Agriculture has awarded 24 grants totaling more than $2.7 million to promote the development, cultivation, production and sales of specialty crops. North Dakota State University will receive: $81,767 to study the optimization of fungicide timing, row spacing and winter rye for improved Sclerotinia management in dry beans. $202,040 for increasing […]
Dry Bean Bacterial Wilt Pathogen Can Be Different Colors
By Robert Harveson, University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Plant Pathologist Bacterial wilt of dry beans, caused by Curtobacterium flaccufaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Cff), has historically posed sporadic but often serious production problems in dry beans throughout the irrigated High Plains since its first report from South Dakota in 1922. In the early 1980s, the disease mysteriously […]
Proposals Being Accepted for the Pulse Crop Health Initiative
The Pulse Crop Health Initiative is seeking submissions for research proposals for fiscal year 2019 funding. The goal of the Initiative is to use cooperative research on pulse crops, including dry beans, to provide solutions to the critical health and sustainability challenges facing the United States and the global community. The Initiative is guided by […]
