Marshfield Summer Field Day June 30
Visitors to the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station”s June 30 field day will open the day with an update on the station”s building project from station superintendent Tom Drendel and assistant superintendent Mike Bertram. During the morning program, Mike Casler of the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center will discuss new grass varieties. Joe Lauer, an agronomist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, will review corn response to row spacing and plant population, and CALS agronomist Ken Albrecht will look at new opportunities with clover/grass mixtures.
At the afternoon program, UW-Madison extension agronomist Dan Undersander will review emergency forage research in Wisconsin. Mike Bertram will talk about experimenting with soybean/grass combinations for forage, and John Peters of the Marshfield Soil and Forage Analysis Lab will discuss soybean response to liming.
The field day begins Tuesday, June 30 at 10:15 a.m. and concludes at 2:30 p.m. There is no program cost, and lunch will be available on the grounds for a nominal charge.
The Marshfield station is 2 miles east of U.S. Highway 13 (turn on 29th St.). For more information on the field day, contact the station at (715) 387-2523. The field day is sponsored by the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and UW-Extension, Cooperative Extension.