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Registration Open for 2025 NDSU Extension Crop Management Field School

By Jeff Stachler

Crop advisers and farmers are invited to attend North Dakota State University Extension’s annual crop management field school.

The 2025 Crop Management Field School will be held June 27 at NDSU’s Carrington Research Extension Center (CREC). This field school is for agricultural professionals, including crop consultants, agronomists, agribusiness representatives, Extension agents and farmers.

The 2025 school will feature two familiar topics. One is weed identification, presented by Alicia Harstad, NDSU Extension agent for Barnes County and Jeff Stachler, NDSU Extension cropping systems specialist at the CREC. The other, herbicide site of action, will be presented by Joe Ikley, NDSU Extension weed specialist.

Source : ndsu.edu

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