Gearing up for the 2026 Growing Season

8:15am Welcome - Coffee & doughnuts while Venkat Chapara, PhD, LREC Interim Director, provides a Foundation seed update

8:30am Agronomy update - Rutendo Nyamusamba, Research Agronomist

9:00am Disease, insect, and soil health Q&A panel discussion - Venkat Chapara, Plant Pathologist, Anitha Chirumamilla, Extension Cropping Systems Specialist, and Naeem Kalwar, Extension Soil Health Specialist

10:00am Break

10:15am War with weeds: NDSU and Simplot Specialists Q&A panel discussion - Brian Jenks, Weed Scientist, Jeff Stachler, Extension Cropping Systems Specialist, and Todd Christianson, Simplot

11:30am Field water management in spring - Laxmi Prasad, Assistant Professor/Extension Water Engineer

12:00pm Lunch

12:45pm Boron fertilization in canola - Victor Gomes, Extension Cropping Systems Specialist

1:05pm Crop market outlook - Frayne Olson, Professor/Crops Economist

2:15pm Dismissal