Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
On July 10, 2012, AgVentures NW is sponsoring a varietal strip trial tour at Mike Miller’s farm on Rehn Road in Adams County, Paul Porter, Seed Division Manager has announced. The tour will start at 5:30 p.m., showcasing new wheat variety releases from six different wheat breeders: Washington State University, Oregon State University, Syngenta – AgriPro Wheats, USDA-ARS, Limagrain Cereals Seeds and WestBred.
The tour will include soft white winter wheat, a two-gene, beyond-tolerant soft-white winter, several hard-red winter wheat varieties, as well as winter club wheat. Public and private wheat breeders will be attending and will be available during and after the meeting for additional conversations. The Wheat Marketing Center in Portland will be represented, along with US Wheat Associates and several foreign wheat trade teams.
Dinner and refreshments will be served at Mike and Marci Miller’s home after the field portion of the meeting. As a special feature, a shotgun will be raffled off that has been donated by WestBred.
Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP to any of the following office locations: Odessa at 509-982-2691, Harrington at 509-253-4324, Davenport at 509-725-1081, Reardan at 509-796-4141, or Ephrata at 509-754-2832. Prompt responses will help the organizers to have enough handout material and food available for everyone.
To reach the tour site, take I-90 to exit 215 (Paha/Packard Road), travel north 1.5 miles to East Rosenoff Road, turn left, travel four miles to North Schoonover Road, turn right, travel three miles to Rehn Road, turn left. Trials are a half mile on the right.
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