Field School for Ag Professionals
Description
A hands-on, in-field program emphasizing crop and pest management diagnostic skill building in field crops.
- A 2-day program completely taught in the field,
- Hands-on activities examining current pests, diseases, varieties, and other crop issues.
- Offered in July
- The location rotates around to Research and Outreach Centers throughout the state in order to highlight different regional issues and reach regional audiences.
- 12 CEUs offered
This program is targeted towards agronomists, crop production retailers, seed sellers, consultants, Extension Educators, agriculture government agency personnel, farm managers and summer scouts. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance their troubleshooting and crop management skills in specially designed plots that display actual cropping situations.
Small learning groups are a key feature of the Field School. Each subject is lead by experienced instructors offering personalized instruction and small group activities.
Contact
Questions about future Field Schools can be directed to David Nicolai, IAP Program Coordinator, nico0071@umn.edu or 612-625-2778.
Past Participant Comments
The HMOA section helped me become more familiar with different chemicals used and what they will do.
Lamberton, 2005
This section [Crop Diagnostics] offered excellent crop troubleshooting practice for me.
Lamberton, 2005
The large gathering [of ag professionals] is good for networking and the instructor/student ratio was very good.
Rosemount, 2001
Very valuable knowledge to understand what symptoms and what weeds are controlled with different herbicide families.
Waseca, 2000
The Crop Diagnostics section presented real-life scenarios that were taught by top-notch instructors.
Lamberton, 2005
I deal with a lot of soybean aphids and corn rootworm problems and the Entomology section offered great, practical instruction.
Lamberton, 2005
It has the most diverse crops, weeds, insects, and herbicides that I can see in one place.
Crookston, 2001
Crop Diagnostics was challenging and fun.
Rosemount, 2001
