Western Society of Crop Science/Western Alfalfa Improvement Conference
Annual Meeting
Powell, WY
June 28-29, 1999
PROGRAM
Monday, June 28
7:30 Registration
8:30 Welcome
8:40 Developing Edamame and Yacon Industries in the High Plains
Duane Johnson#(Colorado State University)
9:00 Improving Irrigated Wheat Production in Arizona
M.J. Ottman (University of Arizona)
9:20 Weed Free Winter Wheat and Rotational Crop Response to Mon-37500 *
Bob Baumgartner (University of Wyoming)
9:40 Trap Crops for Nematode Control and Sustainable Sugar Beet Production
J.W. Flake (University of Wyoming)
10:00 Break
10:30 Economics of Trap Cropping for Sugar Beet Nematode Control *
Eric Geving (University of Wyoming)
10:50 Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Common Bean
Mark Brick (Colorado State University)
11:10 Detection of Quantitative Trait Loci for Resistance to Fusarium wilt in Common* Bean
Amy Fall (Colorado State University)
11:30 China's Move to Modernize Their Agricultural Industry
Wesley J. Mueller (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Winter Pea Grazing in the Winter Wheat-Fallow Cropping System
Dave Claypool (University of Wyoming)
1:50 Direct Seeding and Intensive Cropping in Typical Wheat-fallow areas of the Pacific
W.F. Schillinger (Washington State University)
2:10 Weed Control & Economic Yield *
Joel S. Lee (University of Wyoming)
2:30 The Use of Perennial Grasses for Weed Management
Tom D. Whitson (University of Wyoming)
2:50 Break
3:20 Nitrates in Cereal Forages: Species and Nitrogen Fertilizer Rate Interaction
D.M. Wichman (Montana State University)
3:40 Review of Silage Effluent Research from the Pacific Northwest
S.C. Fransen (Washington State Universtiy)
4:00 Evaluation of Cropshare Arrangements for Alternative Dryland Cropping Systems
Paul A. Burgener (University of Nebraska)
4:20 Cool Season Forage Grass Seed Production in the Nebraska Panhandle *
Rebecca Ott (University of Nebraska)
4:45 WAIC Business Meeting
7:00 Tour: University of Wyoming Research and Extension Center, Powell Tuesday, June 29
8:10 Turf Grass Seed Production in the NE Panhandle *
Wendy K. Cecil (University of Nebraska)
8:30 Transcaucasian Annual Medics on the Great Plains
Robin Groose (University of Wyoming)
8:50 Development of an Experimental Sainfoin, Ohobrychis viciifolia, with Tolerance to the Northern Root-knot Nemotode
Fred Gray (University of Wyoming)
9:10 Establishment of Alfalfa Using Corn as a Cover Crop
J.M. Krall (University of Wyoming)
9:30 Alfalfa Stand Establishment Methods Influence Hay Yield and Forage Quality
Alan Gray (University of Wyoming)
9:50 Brown Root Rot, Phoma Sclerotioides, A New Challenge for Alfalfa Growers *
Charla Hollinsworth (University of Wyoming)
10:10 Break
10:30 Columbia Root-knot Nematode Standard Test Proposal
J. Kugler (Waterman Loomis, Inc.)
10:50 Imazamex for Weed control in seedling Alfalfa Grown with a Nurse Crop
Stephen D. Miller (University of Wyoming)
11:10 Revised Phosphate Fertilizer Recommendations for Alfalfa in Utah
Boyd Kitchen (Extension Service, Utah State University)
11:30 Diurnal Variation in Alfalfa Quality and Implications for Testing
Glenn E. Shewmaker (Extension Forage Specialist, University of Idaho)
12:00 WSCS Business Meeting
1:30 Tour: Leafcutter bee management, alfalfa and grass seed production.
6:00 Steak Fry

#Note: Only senior author listed
* Student Paper

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