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Field Tours
Take four walking tours and discuss the latest breakthroughs in agriculture and technology with researchers and extension specialists from the University of Illinois. Walking tours begin every half-hour between 7:00 AM and 12:00 NOON, as groups are available. Each tour lasts about an hour, so please come early if you plan to take all four.
CCA Continuing Education Credits Tracking Numbers and Hours:
| NM | SW | IPM | CM | PD | Total | ||
| Tours in order A, B, C, D | IL-05187 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 Tour A |
| IL-05188 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 Tour B | |
| Total Credits: 1.5 per tour | IL-05189 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 Tour C |
| IL-05190 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 Tour D |
Tour A: Soil Fertility/ Crop Management
- Fred Below – Within Field Variation in Corn Response to Nitrogen
- Richard Mulvaney – Can Nitrogen Fertilizer Recommendations be Improved With a New Soil Test??
- Tony Grift, Matthias Kasten, Yoshisada Nagasaka – Robotics in Agriculture: Asimov Meets Corn
- Richard Cooke, Jong Ahn Chun – Infinitely-Variable, Automated Control Structure for Drainage Water Management
- Emerson Nafziger – Twin Rows for Corn
Tour B: Entomology/Plant Pathology
- Glen Hartman, Monte Miles – Fungicides for Control of Soybean Rust - Are You Prepared?
- Dr. Joseph L. Spencer, Kelly Cook, Ron Estes – 21st Century Corn Rootworm Management: Old Dogs and New Tricks
- Dean Malvick, Fred Kolb – Is Wheat Scab an Emerging Threat or Recurring Villain?
- Terry Niblack – Corn Nematodes: An Old Problem is Coming Back to Haunt Us
- David Voegtlin – The Soybean Aphid Roller Coaster
Tour C: Weed Science
- Patrick Tranel, Dean Volenberg, William Patzoldt – Waterhemp response to glyphosate:is waterhemp resistant, tolerant, or all in your mind?
- Benjamin Tracy, Ian Renne – Weed competition in pastures
- Bill Simmons – Weed Competition in Glyphosate Tolerant Crops
- Dean Riechers, Kevin Kelley – Stressed-Out Soybeans: The Impact of Off-Target Plant Growth Regulator Herbicide Injury
- Scott Bretthaur – Control More With More Control: Pulse Width Modulation
Tour D: U of I Ag Research: Past, Present and Future
- Martin Bohn – Long Term Selection for Improving the Non-Transgenic Resistance of Corn Against the Western Corn Rootworm
- Emily Heaton – Energy Farming: Lessons of the Past to Power the Future
- Stephen Long, Donald Ort – SoyFACE: Exploring the Effects of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Ozone on Agricultural Systems
- Randall Nelson – Ozone: The Good, the Bad, and the Soybean
- Gary Schnitkey – Marketing and Insurance Assessment Tools