Weeds Tour 2025 comes together with Wheat Day
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Summer Field Season 2025 is in high gear and the weeds crew and the wheat team are out in full force. PSM faculty, students and staff treated visitors to a full spectrum of crop science from new findings in herbicide resistance to the latest in wheat technology. Enjoy these photos of the day!
The crowd of research and extension faculty, stakeholders, students, staff and guests intermingle and move at their own pace through the fields marked with treatments.
Unofficial stop on the tour: research assistant Randy Laurenz (left) discusses common names for Conyza candedensis with Gary Powell, retired from the weeds program under Christy Sprague (red hat), and Paul Horny, retired fam manager of the Saginaw Valley Research and Education Center.
Weed scientist Erin Burns chats up Theo (right) who is working with Nutrien this summer and starting his major is CSS this year.
Weed scientist Dr Eric Patterson makes the tour with his lab.
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Not all guests are welcome on the Weeds Tour 2025.
After lunch and across the road it's a Field Day for Wheat, which is almost at perfect ripeness for harvest. Here the crowd gathers around Dr Maninderpal Singh (Manni) as he demonstrates planting methods including the role of seed placement accuracy, planting time and density, to stakeholders - in real time.
Moving to the next stop on the tour! See you next year!
