Nephi Dryland Range Farm Field Day
All with an interest in dryland farming are invited to the 2009 Field Day at the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station's (UAES) Nephi Dryland Farm, on Wednesday July 1 from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The farm is located just off Highway 28, three miles south of Nephi on the way to Levan. The event is free but organizers request an RSVP by June 24 to the Juab County Extension Office, 435-623-3450. Certified Crop Advisor credits are available to participants.
The event begins with a look at new GIS/GPS equipment and uses by Phil Rasmussen, Extension Specialist and director of Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE). USDA-Agricultural Research Service researchers Rob Smith, Kevin Jensen, and Michael Peel will follow with presentations on forage kochia research, forage grass varieties, and legume breeding for pastures and rangelands, respectively.
David Hole, wheat breeder in USU's Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, will present information about his dryland winter wheat nursery research. Ray Cartee, director of UAES research farms, will conclude the day's presentations by explaining results of cropping rotation and soil fertility trials. Presentations will adjourn at 12:15, when guests will be invited to meet at Levan City Park for lunch.
Experiment Station researchers first broke ground at the Nephi Dryland Farm in 1903 and have worked there ever since--making it the oldest continuously used dryland station in North America--because the need for research-based answers to grower's questions continues to evolve with emerging threats from diseases and pests, economic fluctuations and changing growing conditions.
Farm field days are jointly sponsored by Utah State University Extension, the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, USU's Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, USDA-ARS and WSARE.
Pictures of the Nephi Dryland Research Farm
