Plan to attend the Rochester Crop Management Tour!

Be sure to put Tuesday, July 1, 2025 on your calendar for the Rochester Crop Management Tour! See what's new and on the horizon in corn and soybean weed management, tour herbicide and cover crop trials, and get updates on tar spot of corn from the experts. 

Tour stops and topics

• 2025 Corn and soybean herbicide program trials
• Learn about experimental Convintro™ (diflufenican), a new herbicide pending registration
• Managing hard water when spraying herbicides
• Corn herbicide trial with AlpHa Shot, a pH adjuster and buffer
• Cover crops and weed management
• Reevaluating residual herbicides in soybean, a multistate trial
• What's new with corn tar spot?
• Extension updates from Olmstead, Houston and Fillmore Counties

Onsite registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with presentations starting at 9:00 a.m.  There's no cost to attend and preregistration is not required. 

The Rochester weed management trials are located just east of the Olmsted County Recycling site on County Rd 9 (Collegeview RD), a short mile north and a bit west of our previous location. If you head to the recycling and composting site, you will see our sign at the entrance, then head east on a gravel field road (GPS coordinates: 44.024037, -92.42457).at the location just east of the Olmstead County Recycling Facility (see map below). 

Rosemount Weed Science Field Day

There will also be a weed management tour at the Rosemount Research and Outreach Center on July 10. For more information and to preregister, visit the Rosemount Weed Science Field Day webpage.