Wheat Rx Field Day - Hays
May 25, 2023
Details
KSU Agricultural Research Center
1232 240th Ave, Hays, KS 67601
8 am - 1 pm
The event is free. Join us even if you didn't register.
Schedule
8:00 am: Coffee and registration
8:40 am: Meeting kickoff and quick overview – Aaron Harries, VP of Research and Operations, Kansas Wheat
8:50 am: transport to breeding plots
9:00-9:30 am: Guorong Zhang: Wheat research for western Kansas
- Wheat Varieties and Promising Line for Western Kansas
- Wheat Streak Mosaic Disease Research
- Improvement of Wheat Quality
9:30 am: transport to long term fertility x rotation plots
9:40-10:10 am: Augustine Obour: What we have learned after 48 years of tillage and N fertility management research
- N Fertilizer and Tillage Practice Effects on Wheat Yields and Protein Concentration
- Tillage Practice and N Fertilizer Impacts on Soil pH Stratification, Nutrient Availability and Uptake
- Challenges of Long-Term No-Tillage Systems Despite Improvements in Soil Properties
10:10 am: transport to wheat agronomy plots
10:20-10:50 am: Romulo Lollato: Wheat agronomy intensification for combined food security and environmental stewardship
- Overview of Variety x Management Trials at the Hays Research Station
- The role of wheat agronomy for simultaniously improving yield and quality
- Producing more wheat with lower environment footprint
10:50-11:20 am: Kelsey Onofre: Wheat disease update and management
11:20 am: transport to facility
11:30 am: Lucas Haag: Economics of wheat production
- Research results from Tribune on the economics of wheat in western Kansas crop rotations
- Economic returns to wheat data from Kansas Farm Management Association enterprise records (via Mark Wood)
- Projected cost returns for wheat in 2023 – based on Kansas Crop Production budgets
12:00 pm: lunch
