Carrington Research Extension Center 2020 Annual Report

Initial Evaluation of the 60-inch Corn System in North Dakota ................................................................. 5
A Preview of Grazing Cover Crops in North Dakota Cash Cropping Systems ......................................... 7
Cover Crop Response to Soybean Herbicides ......................................................................................... 8
Assessment of Canola Response to Top-dress Nitrogen and Sulfur ...................................................... 10
A Mobile Web-mapping Application for Real-time Monitoring of Palmer Amaranth in North Dakota ...... 11
Assessment of N Fixation and Soybean Yield Response to the Application of Distillers Co-Products ... 13
Effects of Nitrogen Top-dress at Tasseling on Corn ............................................................................... 14
Three Years of Data Addressing Rye Water Use Prior to Soybean ....................................................... 16
Soybean Yield Response to Planting Rates and Row Spacings in North Dakota .................................. 20
Jump Starting Mycorrhizal Colonization in Corn Following Non-host Crop – First Trial Year ................. 21
Organic Evaluation and Increase of a Determinate Buckwheat Variety ................................................. 26
Enhanced Efficiency Nitrogen Fertilizer Impact on Soil Available N, Corn and Wheat ........................... 27
Influence of Oat Variety and Harvest Timing on Alfalfa Establishment in an Organic System ............... 30
Field Pea and Canola Intercropping Production Management ............................................................... 32
Assessment of a New Scalable Non-near Infrared Vegetation Index for Crop Assessment .................. 35
Long-Term Cropping Systems Study – 2019 Yield Results .................................................................... 37
Optimizing Fungicide Droplet Size for Improved Management of White Mold in Soybeans ................... 38
Pollinator Communities in Annual Pollinator Plantings and Adjacent Dry Bean Crops ........................... 43
Utilization of Soybean Hulls in Drylot Beef Cow-calf Rations ................................................................. 46
Discovering Value in North Dakota Calves: 20 Years of the Dakota Feeder Calf Show Feedout .......... 50
Northern-Hardy Fruit Evaluation Project: Drought Returns, SWD Persists ............................................ 53
Weather Summary .................................................................................................................................. 57
Agronomic Research Trials..................................................................................................................... 58