U of M Winter Crops Day Thursday, Jan. 11 morningagclips.com/u-of-m-winter-… Join us at the Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC) in Waseca for this FREE event! Lunch provided. CEUs available. @SROCcrops U of MN Extension Soil, Water, & Climate Melissa Wilson Jeff Vetsch MN Corn Growers MN Soybean Growers #MNag

Watching Jeff Vetsch talk about corn nitrogen rate responses at the @SROCcrops Southern Research and Outreach Center Winter Crops Day. I'm up next! #mnag UMN Nutrient Management

Jeff Coulter, UMN Corn Agronomist, discusses mid-season N & S application at the checkoff sponsored SROC Winter Crops Day

What a great turnout for the Winter Crops Day! Over 60 participants learned from UMN experts and were able to ask questions to make growing season decisions. Thank you to MN Soybean Growers MN Corn Growers for supporting the event so we could provide FREE registration!

#UMNProud to announce #UMN is a part of this regional collaborative that won an inaugural Regional Innovation Engine award to develop and grow a water-focused innovation engine in the Great Lakes region!

We're hiring! Do you like to grow things and want work in a great place with great people? Come help us with our vegetable research as a full-time Plot Technician!

SROC is super excited to be a participant with UMN Forever Green Initiative, where we research camelina and pennycress as winter cover crops to meet a variety of industry needs.

SROC has been one location for testing these crops U of M research helps turn crops into jet fuel and diesel kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…

Big thanks to everyone involved for a great info session yesterday! Lots of great conversations between producers and winter camelina experts. Missed the event at SROC? You can still attend in Morris on February 8th! More details⬇️

When is it too early to plant? Maybe February 26th? Well, the conditions were right... so we decided to plant a small demo of corn, soybeans, and wheat. We'll keep you updated on this demo through March and April, so follow us to see what happens!

We're a little silly at the SROC.😜Glad to see great minds think alike with testing out some early planting!

"This will be a good test of whether [these seeds] can survive a brief cold-snap."-Tom Hoverstad, SROC Agronomy Researcher

After another week of warm March weather, our ultra early planting demo is doing great! In the photo, you can see where our corn, soybean, and wheat seeds (left to right) are at in the germination process. For those tracking the weather... we'll have to see what happens! 👀🌨❄️

We also took the time to plant our 'early planting demo' with the same repetition of corn, soybean, and wheat right next to the Feb. 26th planting demo. The plan is to plant 1 more repetition at 'regular' planting time to compare across the 3 planting dates.

Time for the first installment of our Weekly Crop Weather Update! Our Feb 26 wheat is up! This winter was the mildest in our records since 1931; a full 10 degrees warmer than normal and the snowfall total was only 15.5 in. That's 37 inches less than normal! Read more below:

We have quite an update related to our early planting demo! Tom & Kara dug a few corn seeds from each planting to show where they are in the germination stage. Our 2 earliest dates soybeans have also emerged! You can read more in the Crop & Weather Update included below.

Here are some pictures of the early planting demo wheat emergence levels... wheat is a cool season grass that does well in the cool/wet weather we have had recently.

Do you enjoy working with people? Do you have experience in HR and office administration? We are looking for you to join our great team at SROC! Read more about the position opening on our website: sroc.cfans.umn.edu/news/admin-pos…

We had more wet weather here in southern Minnesota this last week... which significantly delayed the rest of our planting tasks. Dry fields for boots doesn't always mean dry fields for tractor tires! Read more about this week's weather and crop outlook below:

Here is this week's installment of the Crop & Weather Update! University of Minnesota Extension has an Alfalfa Harvest Alert system which provides growers with data related to the 1st cut of their hay harvest. You can read more at this link: blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu/.../alfalfa...