The annual Cornell Field Crop Research Field Day will be Thursday, August 1 at the Musgrave Research Farm, Aurora, N.Y. The program features walking and hay wagon tours in the morning and afternoon. 

The tour stops include:

• Vipan Kumar: Herbicide programs for weed control in corn and soybean
• Mike Hunter & Lynn Sosnoskie: Weed seed movement and the importance of cleaning equipment
• Louis Longchamps: On-farm experimentation, robotic interseeding
• Ginny Moore and Erika Everest: Dry-bean presentation and tasting (tasting over lunch)
• Quirine Ketterings and Kirsten Workman: Value of manure and SSEA approach
• Lilly Elliott & Katja Poveda: Seedcorn maggot: predicting damage risk in New York
• Kristen Loria and Matt Ryan: Balancing trade offs when no-till planting into cover crops
• Joseph Amsili: Soil health benchmarks, carbon stocks, and solar farms

DEC and CCA credits have been requested.

The program is free and open to the public. A light breakfast and free lunch will be provided.

Schedule at a glance:

• 9:00-9:45 am - Registration & light refreshments outside Field House
• 9:45-9:50 am - Welcome & instructions
• 10-11:55 am - Morning tours
• 12-12:55 pm - Lunch
• 1-2:55 pm - Afternoon tours
• 3:00 pm - Opportunity for discussion with presenters

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