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.

Tour Topics include:

• New Weed Problems
• Aphid Resistance in Soybeans
• Soybean Rust Sentinel Plot System
• Corn Rootworm Management
• Precision Agriculture
• Seed Treatments

Tour A:

• Terry Niblack – Most SCN-Resistant Soybean Varieties Are NOT Resistant to SCN: 2005 Update on SCN Races in Illinois
• Mohammad Babadoost – Vegetable Production In Illinois: Current And Potential
• Dean Malvick, Linda Sue Kull – The Soybean Rust Sentinel Plot System In Illinois
• Glen Hartman, Brian Diers, Curt Hill – Soybean Aphid Resistance
• Emerson D. Nafziger – Do We Really Need All This Stuff On Soybean?

Tour B:

• Dr. Joseph Spencer – Rootworm Movement In Transgenic And Refuge Corn: Getting Beetles From Here To There.
• Kevin Steffey, Ron Estes – New Strategies for Managing Soybean Aphids and Other Insect Pests of Soybeans
• Michael Gray, Darren M. Bakken – Seed Treatments and Transgenic Hybrids for Corn Rootworms: Management Challenges Persist
• Loren Bode, Scott Bretthauer – How to Apply Soybean Rust Fungicides
• Fred Below, Stephen Moose – Genetic Differences in Nitrogen Use by Corn

Tour C:

• Dean Riechers, Josie Hugie – Can Weed Resistance to HPPD Inhibitors Be Prevented?
• Dr. Bill Simmons – How And When Weeds Steal Resources
• George Czapar – Southern Weeds Moving North
• Dawn Nordby, Aaron Hager, Patrick Tranel – As If You Didn't Have Enough Weed Problems Already
• Stanley Solomon, Jr., Dennis Bowman, Pete Fandel – Low-cost GPS for Agricultural Applications

Tour D:

• Gary Schnitkey, Dale Lattz – Cost And Efficiencies if Different Sized Combines
• Stephen Long, Kevin Hollis, Timothy Mies, Patrick Morgan Morgan, Randall Nelson, Don Ort – Could Air Quality in Central Illinois be Depressing Soybean Yield Today and More So Tomorrow?
• Tim Wilcox, Alan Hansen – Harvesting Grain More Effectively With Wireless Data Communication
• Ted Funk – Manure Management Marathon: Winners Plan For The Long Run
• Emily Heaton, Frank Dohleman – Fuel without the Fossils: Can Miscanthus Do for Coal What Ethanol Has Done for Gasoline?