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Insights on Managing Fusarium Head Blight - Scabinar is March 15

The Scabinar is offered in two parts, Part 1 will cover the Fusarium Head Blight disease cycle and Part 2 will cover Fusarium Head Blight/mycotoxin management, both parts will have a presentation along with an interactive panel session with representatives from different geographies and grain classes represented. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions to gain insights.

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Jennifer Elwell
The National Wheat Foundation Officially Opens its 2021 National Wheat Yield Contest

The Foundation is accepting entries for Winter and Spring Wheat. The deadline for Winter Wheat entries is May 15th with an early registration deadline of April 1st. The Spring wheat entry deadline is August 1st, with an early registration deadline of June 15th. The wheat contest is administered entirely online, and growers can register at www.yieldcontest.wheatfoundation.org.

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ProductionJennifer Elwell
UK begins on-farm variable rate irrigation research

A University of Kentucky research project that could have significant impacts for Kentucky grain producers with irrigated acres is beginning on a Western Kentucky farm. Ole Wendroth, soil physicist in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is leading a study examining the effects of a variable rate irrigation system that, to his knowledge, is the first-of-its-kind in the state.

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