Please join us for the 2021 Blackland Farm Managers Tour! This year the Tour will be hosted by Donald's Flying Service and Manning Bros. Farms in the Pantego area of Washington County. If you're using a GPS to find us, you will need to use the address 5212 NC-99, Roper, NC 27970.
Registration will begin at 7 a.m. and field tours will start at 8:15 a.m. We will end the day at 1 p.m. after a sponsored food-truck style lunch and closing remarks. Pesticide credits and CCA credits are also being provided.
This year, our speaker list will include:
Dr. Ron Heiniger - Methods for Managing Root Growth in Corn (Biologicals, fertilizer, plant spacing, and population as tools in adjusting rooting depth & water uptake)
Dr. Rachel Vann - Impacts of Planting Date & Maturity Group on Yield and Seed Quality
Dr. Dominic Reisig - Soybean Seed Quality & Pest Management
Dr. Luke Gatiboni - Soil Fertility Management for High Yielding Soybeans
Dr. Charlie Cahoon - What Can Go Wrong? Spraying in the Age of 1,000 Gallon Spray Tanks & 120’ Booms
Dr. Wes Everman - Soybean Weed Control
Dr. Chad Poole - Water Management and Hybrid & Variety Trials and Excessive and Deficit Water Stress
Rod Gurganus - Agent Plot Work – Nitrogen Placement/Timing and Biologicals in Corn
