UC Cooperative Extension Field Day set to take place

HOLTVILLE — The University of California Cooperative Extension office announced it will be hosting its annual Agronomic Crops and Irrigation Water Management Field Day from 7 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Desert Research & Extension Center, located at 1004 East Holton Road, here. Pre-registration is encouraged and can be made by contacting Andrea Ramirez at aiestrada@ucanr.edu or (442) 265-7700. Registration will begin on site at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The workshop will be broken into two parts, with talks and demonstrations in the field, followed by presentations in a classroom-type setting.

Researchers, industry groups and growers will share their research findings, observations and experiences, explained a UCCE news release.

Among the topics to be presented in the field are wheat varieties for the low desert, an update on sunflower research in the Imperial Valley, the evaluation of residual herbicides for weed control in low-desert alfalfa and the automation of flood irrigation.

The indoor workshop will include crop water-use for the low desert cropping system, causes of sugar beet seedling morality and emergence failure in the Valley and problematic weeds of the low desert region and their identification. Attendees will receive continuing education units.

For additional information, contact organizers Ali Montazar at amontazar@ ucanr.edu, Oli Bachie at obachie@ucanr.edu or Pratap Devkota at pdevkota@ucanr