Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers (MPSG) is once again hosting its popular Pulse Research Tour at the Morden AAFC Research Station on August 23, 2016. Farmers and agronomists interested in learning about pulse and soybean research are encouraged to attend.
“We are happy to be back in Morden again this year,” said Kristen Podolsky, Production Specialist at MPSG. “This tour is a great opportunity to see the work involved in bringing improved disease resistance into our pulse varieties as well as to network within the pulse industry”
The Pulse Tour is a half day event that gives farmers and agronomists the opportunity to view field trials of research sponsored by AAFC and MPSG and interact with the researchers themselves. Highlights of this tour will include disease nursery plots, with an emphasis on bacterial blight and anthracnose, a water management study as well as soybean and edible bean variety trials.
This is a free, half day event and the tour is open to everyone. No registration is required. MPSG will provide a lunch in honour of the International Year of Pulses featuring a special guest speaker from Pulse Canada.
Manitoba Pulse & Soybean Growers Pulse Field Tour Schedule
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
AAFC Research Station, Morden
The Pulse Field Tour is free and open to everyone! Lunch will be provided.
8:30 am Registration and coffee
8:45 am Load onto wagons
Welcoming Remarks from AAFC and MPSG
Wagons depart for plots
9:00 am Stop 1 – Dr. Bob Conner, AAFC
Pulse disease screening nursery for common bacterial blight, white mould and anthracnose
9:40 am Stop 2 – Dr. Scott Duguid, AAFC
Establishing a long-term crop rotation study including soybeans
9:50 am Stop 3 – Kristen Podolsky, MPSG
Late planting of early maturing soybeans
10:00 am Stop 3 cont. – Dr. Anfu Hou, AAFC
Novel bean types
Screening for iron chlorosis tolerance in soybeans and food soybean quality as affected by environment
10:25 am Stop 3 cont. – Dr. Anfu Hou, AAFC; Dennis Lange, AGR
Crop variety evaluation trials for edible beans and soybeans
11:25 am Stop 4 – Steve Sager, AAFC
Water management study
11:45 am Depart field for lunch
12:00 pm Lunch
Speaker from Pulse Canada: IY0P 2016
Source : ManitobaPulse