If you are farming in eastern Washington and your climate is particularly dry, there could be some good tips and hints for you at the annual Lind Washington State University Dryland Research Station today.

Got a dryland farm? A visit to Washington's Dryland Research station today could bring some important information to you as researchers provide reports on their latest research during the field day.

A program which begins this morning at 8:30 and runs through noon, when a special luncheon program and free food – followed by an ice cream social – will include a long list of speakers and topics, including the following:
•A biobicide for downy brome management: Ann Kennedy, USDA-ARS
•Winter wheat breeding update: Aaron Carter, WSU
•Club wheat breeding update: Kim Campbell, USDA-ARS
•Spring wheat breeding update: Mike Pumphrey, WSU
•Russian thistle control in no-till fallow: Drew Lyon,  WSU
•Drought stress tolerance in wheat: Scot Hulbert, WSU
•Alternative crops: Bill Schillinger, station superintendent

Lunch at noon will be hosted, and features program with WSU Director of Extension Rich Koenig.

There will also be an update of the WSU College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences by interim dean Ron Mittelhammer, who  issues a special invitation for growers and their families to attend the Lind event off Highway 395 south of Ritzville in Lind, Wash.

Additional luncheon talks will be presented by WSU's Kulvinder Gill on two new Clearfield wheats; Sen. Mark Schoesler in a review of Washington state legislative farm activities; Washington Grain Commission Chairman Steve Claassen, and a Washington Association of Wheat Growers presentation by a WAWG representative.

Field tours for the event will begin at 9 a.m.

Washington Pesticide Recertification credits and CCA credits have been requested for those how come to the sessions.

For more information, go online to www.lindstation.wsu.edu.

This will be the 98th year that the field day event is held at the Lind facility, recognized as a primary research facility for dryland PNW research.