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| here is a link to some pics that I took at the WIU Organic Research Farm yesterday evening: https://goo.gl/photos/374F7pwouorWcHFS9
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Our sunflowers will be at peak bloom within a few days!
The beneficial insect strips along the borders of most of our fields are also full of insects in the mornings and will soon have more species blooming (e.g., mustard, safflower and cowpeas).
The last pics show a diverse cover crop mix (cowpea, soybean, sesbania, sunflower, radish, forage rape, chia, oats and yellow peas) that will be followed by corn next season.
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If you are located anywhere near Roseville, IL, please consider coming out for our first Twilight tour of the fall next Thursday 9/7.
The tour will start at 5 pm.
Our ~ 9 acres of black oilseed sunflowers will be close to peak bloom so the view will be spectacular.
We will also look at grain corn, popcorn and soybean plots with contrasting management and genetics (e.g., corn and soybean variety trials, no-till vs conventional till corn and soybeans, corn w/ & w/o sidedress N, corn w/ & w/o cover crop interseeding) and a very wide variety of cover crops – grown individually and as mixtures).
We will also look at equipment and may have an equipment demonstration if weather permits.
The WIU Organic Research Farm is located in the SW corner of Warren Cty, IL - 4 miles west of U.S Rt. 67 and 7 miles N of IL Rt. 9 (a little more than a 20 minute drive from campus). The southeast corner of the farm is the intersection of 20th Ave. and 20th St. just west of Fusion Tech.
shoot me an email if you have any Qs: [email protected]
Joel
WIU Agriculture
Edited by jbgruver 9/3/2017 12:34
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