Events

WheatStalk 2023

Date: July 25 - 25 @ 8:00 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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Growers will be able to find useful information on the latest wheat agronomy to implement on their farm.

AGENDA

  • 8:00 a.m. Registration
  • 8:30 a.m. Weed Management and Resistance with Charles Geddes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • 9:00 a.m. Pulse and RVT
  • 10:15 a.m. Cereal Staging — The importance of treatment timing with Jeremy Boychyn, The Alberta Wheat and Barley Commissions
  • 10:45 a.m. Enhanced efficiency fertilizers in wheat with Dr. Brian Beres, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
  • 11:15 a.m. Barley lodging and advanced management — the tipping point with Dr. Sheri Strydhorst
  • 11:45 a.m. What's the Verticillium stripe?
  • 12:15 p.m. Lunch
  • 1:00 p.m. Canola - Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria (NFB) and 4R Demo
  • 2:15 p.m. Industry Trials
  • 3:00 p.m. Spray drift and canopy penetration of spray nozzles with Tom Wolfe, Agrimetrix Research and Training