Field Tour Presentations
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 A
- Aaron Hager
- Technology to Turn the Tide
- Patrick Tranel
- The Naked Truth: Waterhemp’s DNA Revealed
- Tony E. Grift
- Mechanical Weed Control in Corn
- John Masiunas and Dan Anderson
- Weed Management in Cucurbits
- Fabián G. Fernández
- How much is too much and how little is too little for phosphorus and potassium?
- S. A. Ebelhar, E. D. Nafziger, E. A. Adee, and L. E. Paul
- Managing Spring Nitrogen for Illinois Wheat
Tour B
- Snook Pataky and Marty Williams
- Genetic discoveries at Illinois continue to improve sweet corn
- James S. Haudenshield and Glen Hartman
- Utilization of Molecular Detection Techniques to Find Soybean Pathogens
- Steve Moose, Matt Hudson, and Wes Barber
- Do Small Genes Make Big Hybrids?
- Mohammad Babadoost
- Diagnose and Manage Your Tomato Diseases
- Scott Bretthauer and Carl A. Bradley
- Aerial Fungicide Applications to Corn for Disease Control
Tour C
- D.K. Lee
- Future Opportunities in Production Agriculture-Dedicated Energy Crop Switchgrass Management
- Ted L. Funk and Gary Letterly
- Make Biomass Pay Now: Bridge Markets for Illinois Biomass Crops
- Jarrad R. Prasifka and Jeff Bradshaw
- Planning ahead: possible insect pests of switchgrass, Miscanthus, and other biofuel crops
- Elizabeth Ainsworth
- SoyFACE - Adapting Illinois Crops to Global Change
- Gary Schnitkey
- Volitility Continues in Energy Prices and Production Costs
Tour D
- Brian Diers and Carol Bonin
- Using Resistance Genes to Combat the Soybean Aphid
- Terry L. Niblack
- The REAL Threat of Corn Nematode Injury in Northern Illinois
- Dr. Joe Spencer, Dr. Kevin L. Steffey, and Andrew T. Morehouse
- The When and Where of Japanese Beetle Injury
- Michael E. Gray
- Bt Stacks, Seed Treatments, and Soil Insecticides: Optimizing IPM and IRM for Corn Rootworms
- Ronald E. Estes and Nicholas A. Tinsley
- New Changes and Old Challenges: Western Corn Rootworm Management in Illinois