Kansas State University´s Southwest Research and Extension Center will host its 2008 Field Day Aug. 28 in Garden City.

The day will begin with registration from 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. and feature agricultural product displays, as well as field tours in the morning and seminars in the afternoon. Coffee and donuts during registration plus a no-cost lunch will be provided, sponsored by commercial exhibitors.

The field tours will be repeated to allow attendees to participate in both, which will include the following topics:

• Status of biological control of field bindweed in Kansas,

• Management of dectes stem borers in soybeans,

• A comparison of five herbicides,

• Post-emergence grass control in ALS-resistant grain sorghum,

• Kixor and Huskie herbicides for broadleaf control in grain sorghum,

• Impact of volunteer Roundup Ready corn on winter wheat, and

• Annual and perennial biofuel production.

Participants can earn one to two credits toward commercial pesticide applicator recertification by attending the morning tours.

The afternoon seminar topics will include:

• Management strategies to improve profitability - beef cattle research at the K-State Agricultural Research Center-Hays,

• Feeding distiller´s grain by-products - summary of recent K-State feedlot research,

• Deficit irrigation - can we make it work, and

• Irrigation scheduling using KanSched2 and Mobile irrigation lab report on center-pivot evaluation.

More information about the field day and applicator recertification credits is available by contacting the K-State Southwest Research- Extension Center at 620-276-8286.