News Release Distributed 03/12/14
WINNSBORO, La. – LSU AgCenter experts will conduct a wheat and oat field day on April 16 at the Macon Ridge Research Station just south of Winnsboro, La.
Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. The program will include a crop update and presentations on wheat waterlogging tolerance and wheat molecular studies.
A field tour will include presentations on fusarium head scab genotype screening; wheat breeding, Sungrains and seed increases; fungicide trials and disease control; wheat variety trials; and Hessian fly and aphid control.
More information is available from Donnie Miller at 318-435-2157 or dmiller@agcenter.lsu.edu.
Rick Bogren