Iowa farm field day June 21

Farmers and farm businesses in southeastern Iowa are invited to join Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the Southeast Iowa Agricultural Research Association for the summer field day at 1 p.m. June 21 at the Iowa State University Southeast Research and Demonstration Farm. The event is free to attend and open to the public.

Sessions will include a research update, a Mung bean breeding report, double cropping discussion, corn disease prediction, and using drones for crop spraying and field mapping.

Check-in begins at 12:30 p.m. Certified crop advisers can earn 1.5 crop management and 0.5 pest management CCA credits.

For more information, contact ISU Extension and Outreach field agronomists Rebecca Vittetoe at 319-653-4811 or [email protected], Virgil Schmitt at 563-263-5701 or [email protected] or Clarabell Probasco at 641-664-2730 or [email protected].