Oregon State University Extension Service specialists and researchers from OSU's Department of Crop and Soil Science will host the annual Hyslop Farm Field Day from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 27.

Field day topics will focus on the production, management and use of local crops including cereals, grass and oil seeds. Topics are separated into four modules that will be given in both the morning and afternoon sessions.

Refreshments will be available at 8:30 a.m. The OSU Crops Club will prepare a free lunch at noon. The public is invited.

Four "modules" are planned:

The cereal module will cover wheat and barley breeding, disease management, nitrogen fertility, weed management and wheat and barley products.

The grass seed module will discuss nitrogen fertility, ryegrass stem rust resistance, harvest management, weed management and annual ryegrass cropping systems.

The oil seed module will showcase OSU's research on winter canola, spring oilseed crops, meadowfoam breeding and an ODA Canola Advisory Committee update.

In the entomology module, researchers will discuss progress on barley yellow dwarf virus, studies on native pollinators and honey bees, and choke management in orchardgrass.

Hyslop Farm is four miles west of Albany on Granger Road, just off the Albany-Corvallis Highway.

For more information, contact Bill Young, OSU Extension seed specialist, at (541) 737-5859; Mike Flowers, OSU Extension cereals specialist, at (541) 737-9940; or Andy Hulting, OSU Extension weed specialist, at (541) 737-5098.

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