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Cropping seminars set in Havre, Chester for Tuesday

Editor’s note: This version corrects the date of the seminars.

Montana State University Extension Service is hosting cropping seminars next week in Havre and Chester, both set for Tuesday.

The seminars, which offer credits for private applicators and for commercial applicators, start at 9 a.m. with sessions from 9-10 a.m., 10-11 a.m., 1-2 p.m. and 2-3 p.m.

People must bring their license numbers to receive credits. Those will be processed starting at 8:30 a.m.

The Havre seminar will be in the 4-H Chuckwagon on the Great Northern Fairgrounds at 1676 U.S. Highway 2 West, and Chester Seminar is at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 10 E. Madison Ave.

In Havre, the 9-10 a.m. session has MSU Extension Plant Pathology Specialist Uta Stuhr presenting “Fungicide efficacy and resistance prevention in cereal grains, peas lentils and chickpeas.”

MSU Extension Cropping Systems Specialist Kent McVay, Ph.D., will then present “Web-based tools for cropping decision making,” from 10 to 11 a.m.

From 1 to 2 p.m., MSU Central Agricultural Research Center Superintendent and Associate Professor Patrick Carr, Ph.D., will present “Oilseeds in Montana wheat-based cropping systems.”

Havre’s seminars wrap up with Food and Agricultural Development Center Director Barnett Sporkin-Morrison presenting “International market and current world supply and demand update,” from 2 to 3 p.m.

For more information on the Havre seminars, contact Hill County Ag Extension Agent Tom Allen at 400-2336 or via email at [email protected] or Blaine County Ag Extension Agent Juli Snedigar at 357-3200 or via email at [email protected].

The seminars in Chester have the same speakers in different order with one addition.

MSU Extension Mental Health Specialist Alison Brennan, Ph.D., will talk about farm and ranch stress and mental health between 11 and 11:30 a.m. in Chester.

The order of the other presentations will be reversed in Chester, with Carr and Sporkin-Morrison presenting in the morning and Stuhr and McVay presenting in the afternoon.

For more information on the Chester seminars, people can contact MSU Liberty County Extension Agent Jesse Fulbright at 759-5625 or [email protected].

 

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