2018 Annual Report
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INTRODUCTION
The information and data reported are a collaboration of ongoing or new research projects located at or near Western Triangle Agricultural Research Center (WTARC) of Montana State University, College of Agriculture, Conrad, Montana. Many projects are conducted in cooperation with faculty members, research associates and Post-doctoral fellows from the Depts. of Plant Science and Plant Pathology (PSPP) and Land Resources and Environmental Science (LRES) located on the campus of Montana State University (MSU), and Agricultural Research Centers: Central (CARC), Northern (NARC), Eastern (EARC), Northwestern (NWARC) Southern (SARC) and Western (WARC) of the Dept. of Research Centers.
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Table of Contents
Variety Trials
Off-station winter wheat cultivar evaluations for the Western Golden Triangle area of Montana
Winter Cereal forage cultivar evaluations for the Western Golden Triangle area of Montana
Winter Wheat Variety Notes & Comments
Off-station spring wheat cultivar evaluations for the Western Golden Triangle area of Montana
Sawfly Tolerant & Semi-tolerant Hard Red Spring Wheat Varieties
Hollow-Stem, Sawfly Intolerant Hard Red Spring Wheat Varieties
Durum cultivar evaluations for the Western Golden Triangle area of Montana
Off-station spring barley cultivar evaluations for the Western Golden Triangle area of Montana
Barley Variety Notes & Comments
Winter Pea Variety Evaluation 2017 – 2018
Statewide and Western Regional Spring Pea, Lentil and Chickpea Variety Evaluation
Western Regional Cool Season Food Legume Evaluation
Canola variety evaluations at Western Triangle Ag. Research Center
Agronomy and Soil Nutrient Management Program
Low Energy Sprinkler Application Effect on Montana Malt Barley
Evaluation of Crystal Green Based Fertilizer
Entomology/Ecology Program
Field Testing the Effect of Biopesticides against Wheat Stem Sawfly Management: Dose Response
Role of entomopathogenic nematodes for the management of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following faculty, former faculty, research associates, members of the Advisory Committee, cooperating producers and summer staff were involved or cooperated in accomplishing the research mission at Western Triangle Ag. Research Center:
Dr. Phil Bruckner and Jim Berg – Winter Wheat Variety Breeding Program
Dr. Luther Talbert and Hwa-Young Heo – Spring Wheat Variety Breeding Program Dr. Jamie Sherman and Liz Elmore – Barley Variety Breeding Program
Dr. Stefan T. Jaronski, USDA-ARS, Sidney, MT – Entomopathogenic fungi Drs. Hikmet Budak and Fernando Guillen-Portal – Cereal Genomics
Dr. David I. Shapiro-Ilan, USDA-ARS, Byron, Georgia – Entomopathogenic nematodes Drs. David Weaver and Kevin Wanner LRES – Wheat stem sawfly/wireworms
Dr. Héctor A. Cárcamo, Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Canada – Canola IPM
Dr. Tyler Wist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, Canada –Wheat Midge Dr. Chengci Chen and Dr. Yusuf Mohammad – Pulse Crop Variety Testing Program Dr. Mike Giroux and Andrew Hogg– Durum Variety Breeding and Testing Program Dr. Bob Stougaard – wheat midge monitoring and biological control
Dr. Patrick Carr and Simon Fordyce– Canola Variety Testing Program Shad Chrisman – Farm Mechanic/Safety Coordinator, WTARC Alysha Miller – Research Assistant, WTARC
Julie Orcutt – Admin Associate, WTARC
WTARC Advisory Committee and cooperating producers: Boyd Standley, Dan Picard, Jeff Farkell, Jerry Jerome, Kevin Bradley, Megan Mattson-Hedges, Phillip Hodgson, Rob Moog, Scott Inbody, Terry Alme, Dusty Jones, Mark Grubb, Phil Aschim, Todd Eney, Steve Kellog, John Majerus, Jonathan Stoltz, Kevin Johnson, and Mike Leys, Aaron Killion and Brian Aklestad.
Summer Staff: Bert Paulsen, Carley Taft, Harold Miller, Hayley Taft, Jonathan Blanchard, Kale Larson, Mikayla Connelly and Sindhu Mettupalli.