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Events

WheatStalk 2023

Date: July 25 - 25 @ 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Location: Vermilion, Alberta | Cost: $Free

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND! ONLY 75 SPOTS AVAILABLE!

Join the Alberta Wheat Commission for WheatStalk- a day of agronomic learning and fun in the sun!

Hosted with Lakeland College, sign up to attend WheatStalk on July 25 in Vermilion for a safe walk-through of various crop trial plots.

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All growers will be able to find useful information on the latest wheat agronomy to implement on their farm.

Agenda

8 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Registration

8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. - Weed Management and Resistance -Charles Geddes , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

9 a.m. - 10 a.m. - Pulse and RVT

10 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - Break

10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Cereal Staging- The importance of treatment timing - Jeremy Boychyn, The Alberta Wheat Commission and Alberta Barley

10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. - Enhanced efficiency fertilizers in wheat- Dr. Brian Beres, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. - Barley lodging and advanced management- the tipping point- Dr. Sheri Strydhorst

11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - What's the Verticillium stripe?

12:15 p.m. - 1 p.m. - Lunch

1 p.m. - 2 p.m. - Canola NFB and 4R Demo

2 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. - Break

2:15 p.m.- 3 p.m.- Industry Trials

3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.- Spray drift and canopy penetration of spray nozzles- Tom Wolfe, Agrimetrix Research and Training