The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Agriculture Field Day will be Friday, Sept. 8, at the UAPB Agriculture Research Station on Oliver Road. State Sen. Stephanie Flowers of Pine Bluff will be the luncheon speaker.
The field day begins at 7:30 a.m. with registration followed by welcoming remarks at 8:30 a.m. Field tours begin at 9 a.m. with the last tour at 10:30 a.m. Tractor tours will take participants to educational stops. Research scientists and Extension specialists will be at each stop to explain their research, give updates and answer questions.
Demonstration stop topics include crops and weed control for organic rice, local food production systems, natural treatments for parasites in goats, sweet potato seed production using virus-indexed slips, sweet potato weed control, honey bees — the best pollinators, soil quality under cover crops, sweet potato rotations and southern cowpea varieties.
Flowers serves District 25, which includes parts of Arkansas, Desha, Jefferson, Lincoln, Monroe and Phillips counties. In the 89th General Assembly, Flowers chaired the Senate Children and Youth Committee. A native of Pine Bluff, Flowers is a lawyer and daughter of the late attorney W. Harold Flowers and educator Margaret Brown Flowers.
Lunch will be provided by Tyson Foods Inc., but only with a ticket included with registration materials. Registration is free, but pre-registration is requested to aid in planning. To pre-register, contact Margaret Taylor at 870-575-7144 or taylorml@uapb.edu. On-site registration ends at 10:30 a.m.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff offers all of its Extension and Research programs and services without discrimination.