Annual Post Rock District Wheat Plot Tours Converted to "Virtual"
By Sandra L. Wick, Crop Production Agent
Annually the Post Rock Extension District conducts face-to-face tours of our wheat demonstration plots around the district. However, with the pandemic conditions, we have converted our tours to “virtual”. But, the variety signs are up on each of the wheat plots in Jewell, Osborne and Smith counties and the field locations are posted on our website at www.postrock.ksu.edu under the “Crops” tab and then “Test Plots”.
Sandra Wick, Post Rock District Crop Production Agent, along with K-State Research and Extension agronomists will provide updated information on each of the varieties along with conditions throughout the growing season including diseases, insects or low temperature effects and a “virtual” tour of the plots will be recorded and posted on our website. We will let you know through email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. when the program will be posted online. The anticipated post date will be the first week of June.
K-State Research and Extension will also host its first-ever live Virtual Wheat Field Day on the evenings of Wednesday., May 27 and Thursday., May 28. In a twist on the typical wheat field day that Kansas farmers often attend, K-State Research and Extension will host a two-part wheat field day live on K-State Agronomy YouTube to update growers and others on the most recent crop advances and challenges while keeping producers safe from COVID-19. The two “field evenings,” will begins at 7 p.m. and will end at approximately 9 p.m. each evening. Agriculture Today radio host Eric Atkinson will moderate the program and will allow for questions from the audience.
This program will include information on an overview of the 2020 wheat growing season, variety selection, disease and insect management, wheat breeding update along with a presentation from the Kansas Wheat commission.
Producers and all others are encouraged to participate in any of these educational opportunities from the Post Rock Extension District and K-State Research and Extension. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Post Rock Extension District of K-State Research and Extension serves Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, and Smith counties. Sandra may be contacted at swick@ksu.edu or by calling Smith Center, 282-6823, Beloit 738-3597, Lincoln 524-4432, Mankato 378-3174, or Osborne 346-2521. Join us on Facebook at “Post Rock Extension” along with our blog site at “postrockextension.blogspot.com. Also remember our website is www.postrock.ksu.edu and my twitter account is @PRDcrops.
Annually the Post Rock Extension District conducts face-to-face tours of our wheat demonstration plots around the district. However, with the pandemic conditions, we have converted our tours to “virtual”. But, the variety signs are up on each of the wheat plots in Jewell, Osborne and Smith counties and the field locations are posted on our website at www.postrock.ksu.edu under the “Crops” tab and then “Test Plots”.
K-State Research and Extension will also host its first-ever live Virtual Wheat Field Day on the evenings of Wednesday., May 27 and Thursday., May 28. In a twist on the typical wheat field day that Kansas farmers often attend, K-State Research and Extension will host a two-part wheat field day live on K-State Agronomy YouTube to update growers and others on the most recent crop advances and challenges while keeping producers safe from COVID-19. The two “field evenings,” will begins at 7 p.m. and will end at approximately 9 p.m. each evening. Agriculture Today radio host Eric Atkinson will moderate the program and will allow for questions from the audience.
This program will include information on an overview of the 2020 wheat growing season, variety selection, disease and insect management, wheat breeding update along with a presentation from the Kansas Wheat commission.
Producers and all others are encouraged to participate in any of these educational opportunities from the Post Rock Extension District and K-State Research and Extension. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Post Rock Extension District of K-State Research and Extension serves Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, and Smith counties. Sandra may be contacted at swick@ksu.edu or by calling Smith Center, 282-6823, Beloit 738-3597, Lincoln 524-4432, Mankato 378-3174, or Osborne 346-2521. Join us on Facebook at “Post Rock Extension” along with our blog site at “postrockextension.blogspot.com. Also remember our website is www.postrock.ksu.edu and my twitter account is @PRDcrops.
