Ag experiment stations plan summer events for public

BOZEMAN – Montana Agricultural Experiment Station research center field days will be held at
Moccasin, Havre, Huntley, Sidney and Williston, N.D., during July and August.

In addition, a USDA-Agricultural Research Service open house and ground breaking will be held Aug. 9 at
Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Center near Miles City.

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The overall schedule of field days includes:

July 2 at the MSU Southern Agricultural Research Center at Huntley beginning at 9:30 a.m.

July 9 at the MSU Central Agricultural Research Center at Moccasin for crop research tours beginning at
1 p.m.

July 10 at the MSU Northern Agricultural Research Center near Havre from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

July 11 at the Williston Research Extension Center, Williston, from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.

July 17, MSU Eastern Agricultural Research Center, Sidney beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Aug. 9, Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory open house and groundbreaking ceremony
on additions to the site. Tours from 4-6 p.m. followed by the groundbreaking ceremony.

The Southern Agricultural Research Center will hold its biennial field day July 2. Registration starts at 9:30
a.m. with two-hour tours starting at 10 a.m. The field day tours will conclude at 3 p.m.

Agronomy research tours will include touring small grain variety plots, alfalfa performance testing,
alternative crop development and sugar beet disease management. The weed science research tour will
feature the development of "weed resistant" spring wheats, showy milkweed control after small grain harvest,
wild oat control in small grains.
There will also be discussion of weed control strategies in corn, sugar beets, dry beans and other crops
grown in south central Montana. John Pulasky, weatherman for Northern Broadcasting, will discuss the impact
of the drought on agriculture of southeastern Montana. Both tours will be repeated after lunch.
A hosted lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m. followed by a short program featuring Sharron Quisenberry,
dean of Montana State University’s College of Agriculture and director of the Montana Agricultural Experiment
Station. The public is welcome to all portions of the field day.
The research center is about three miles northeast of Huntley on old U.S. Highway 312. For additional
information, contact the center at (406) 348-3400.
The annual field day at the Eastern Agricultural Research Center at Sidney will begin with coffee at 8:30
a.m. Tours will begin at 9 a.m. and there will be a hosted lunch. Tour topics will include value-added and
high-value crops, sugar beet and safflower disease control, malt barley, and producing and marketing
identity-preserved wheats and safflowers.
Three private applicator credits will be awarded to those who attend Eastern’s field day. The center is one
mile north of Sidney on Highway 200. For more information, call (406) 482-2208.
The Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory will have an open house Aug. 9 in conjunction
with our groundbreaking ceremonies for the new additions onto its laboratory/office building. There will be
educational tours from 4 to 6 p.m., ground breaking ceremonies from 6 to 7 p.m. and a free barbecue thereafter.
The tours will include displays of cutting edge rangeland and beef cattle management technology as related to
beef cattle genetics, beef cattle reproductive physiology, range animal nutrition, and rangeland ecology and
management.
The groundbreaking ceremonies will include comments from local, state, and national officials. The
laboratory is located at 243 Fort Keogh Rd. just off Interstate 90 at Miles City, Montana. For more information,
call (406) 232-8200.

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