WEED MANAGEMENT in wheat is just one of the topics that will be discussed during the Wheat and Oat Field Day scheduled for April 25 at the LSU AgCenter's Scott Research, Extension and Education Center at Winnsboro, La.

The field day begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. Activities will include reports on research being conducted by faculty from the LSU AgCenter's Northeast Research Station, its Macon Ridge branch and other locations. Field tours of research plots will be featured, and participants will hear about slow-release nitrogen studies, seedling rate studies in wheat, wheat and oat variety trials, fusarium head blight, multi-cropping cotton and wheat, breeder seed increases, fungicide screening and disease management in wheat.