Annual Field Day scheduled for today at Fisher Delta Research Center

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- The Fisher Delta Research Center in Portageville, Missouri, will host its 53rd annual Field Day today, welcoming farmers, producers and landowners to learn more about the latest in regional agriculture from experts and specialists.

Registration and breakfast will start at 7 a.m. in Rone Hall at the center's Lee Farm, just east of Portageville. Four educational farm tours will begin at 8:30 a.m., featuring talks on cotton, crop protection, soybeans and crop monitoring.

Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The center is one of 16 off-campus agricultural centers, farms and forests around the state, operating within the University of Missouri's College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the MU Agriculture Experiment Station.

A highlight of this year's Field Day will be the Vo-Ag (Vocational Agriculture) event for National FFA Organization students across the region. The center will welcome area high school juniors and seniors, faculty and FFA sponsors to learn about the wide variety of career opportunities available throughout the agriculture industry, through the day's theme, "Developing a Local Foods Enterprise."

Center partners annually with the MU Outreach and Extension program to stage this portion of Field Day, which attracts more than 500 vocational agriculture students each year. The group will tour Lee Farm's various facilities and research plots between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Lunch will follow the tours.

The center's Lee Farm is at the intersection of routes T and TT, just east of Portageville.

For more information, contact Tina Clark at 573-379-5431 or clarktr@missouri.edu. Visit the new Fisher Delta Research Center website at delta.cafnr.org, for schedules and additional research details.

Pertinent address:

Fisher Delta Research Center, Portageville, Mo.