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Ag Day Coming Wednesday at IVCC


OGLESBY – The Illinois Valley Community College agriculture program, in partnership with University of Illinois Extension, will conduct an ag research field day at the research plot along the west side of Orlando Smith Road from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26.
The field day, which will serve as a classroom for an agronomy course, is open to the public.
Extension educator and presenter Russ Higgins will focus on the two IVCC Ag/University of Illinois/College of ACES primary research areas – the soybean planting population trial and the monitoring of the corn rootworm population.
Higgins will also likely draw attention to ‘tar spot,’ a little known corn leaf affliction beginning to show up in the area and threatening to reduce corn yields.
“This classroom field day is another example of the many educational opportunities our students are receiving from our expanding research partnership with University of Illinois Extension,” said IVCC ag program instructor and program coordinator Willard Mott.
“Having our own farmland next door to campus is a priceless instructional tool for our program.”
With the cooperation of IVCC tenant farmer Luke Holly of Granville, IVCC and the Extension are using a portion of IVCC’s 153 acres of farmland south of campus to create a crop and soil research program. The partnership is increasingly being used in IVCC’s new agronomy curriculum.

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