Insitute for Ag Professionals

Field School for Ag Professionals

The Field School is offered as a hands-on, in-field program emphasizing crop and pest management diagnostic skill building in field crops. This program is targeted towards agronomists, crop production retailers, seed sellers, consultants, Extension Educators, agriculture government agency personnel, farm managers and summer scouts. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance their troubleshooting and crop management skills in specially designed plots that display actual cropping situations. A key feature of the Field School is the small learning groups students are placed in with an instructor to enhance the learning experience. Each subject is lead by experienced instructors offering personalized instruction and offering small group activities.
Questions about future Field Schools can be directed to David Nicolai, IAP Program Coordinator, via e-mail; nico0071@umn.edu or by calling 612-625-2778.

The 2008 Field School for Ag Professionals has already concluded.

Past Participant Comments

The Weed ID/HMOA section helped me become more familiar with different chemicals used and what they will do.
Lamberton, 2005

Most informative soil seminar ever. Kudos to the soil instructors.
Rosemount, 2001

This section [Crop Diagnostics] offered excellent crop troubleshooting practice for me.
Lamberton, 2005

The large gathering [of ag professionals] is good for networking and the instructor/student ratio was very good.
Rosemount, 2001

Very valuable knowledge to understand what symptoms and what weeds are controlled with different herbicide families.
Waseca, 2000

The Crop Diagnostics section presented real-life scenarios that were taught by top-notch instructors.
Lamberton, 2005

Nitrogen management [Soil Properties and Crop Production] was a good hands-on exercise. Instructors made it enjoyable - it was great learning experience working with the N Management exercise.
Lamberton, 1999

I deal with a lot of soybean aphids and corn rootworm problems and the Entomology section offered great, practical instruction.
Lamberton, 2005

It has the most diverse crops, weeds, insects, and herbicides that I can see in one place.
Crookston, 2001

Crop Diagnostics was challenging and fun.
Rosemount, 2001