shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com June 21, 2016 • Page 11 Fiber Arts, Kid Crafts at SD Ag Heritage Museum Growers Discuss BROOKINGS, S.D. - The South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum has launched a series of fiber art and kid craft activities this summer in conjunction with their exhibit The Unspun Tale: Sheep in South Dakota. Open Fiber Art Fun Every Thursday from 9:30 to noon. Free and open to the public Join the Brookings Fiberworks Guild for a morning of spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting or any other fiber art you may enjoy. The Museum Store will be providing Kool Beans Coffee for everyone to enjoy. This is free and open to the public. Kid Craft Mondays - Every Monday from 1 pm - 3 pm - $1 per craft item. Drop in for a make-n-take style craft for all ages. The museum is offering a different craft each Thursday, June 23 from 10 am - noon. $5 (all supplies included) The Brookings Fiberworks Guild is offering a knitting class for kids ages 8 and older. Kids will learn the basic knit and purl stitches used for any knitting project. The registration fee is $5, which includes a book, needles and yarn. Please register at the museum by June 15. The class size is limited. Kids Crocheting Class Thursday, July 14 from 10 am - noon $5 (all supplies included) The Brookings Fiberworks Guild is offering a crocheting class for kids ages 8 and older. Kids will learn the basic stitches used for crocheting. The registration fee is $5, which includes a book, a hook and yarn. Please register at the morning for the cost of $1 per craft item. No registration is required. World Wide Knit in Public Day - Saturday, June 18 from 10 am - 3 pm - Free and open to the public. Join the Brookings Fiberworks Guild at the museum for the World Wide Knit in Public Day. It is the largest international knitter-run event in the world. It is a time where knitters come together and celebrate this ancient technique of fiber arts. Anyone interested in participating in the event just needs to bring their knitting needles and yarn. The museum will provide the chairs and coffee. For more information about the other Knit in Public Day events around the world, visit their website. Kids Knitting Class - museum by July 7. The class size is limited. Founded in 1884, the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum’s mission is toinspire a passion for the diverse history, culture and science of agriculture in South Dakota. It is the official State museum for preserving the history of agriculture and rural life of South Dakota located in the historic Stock Judging Pavilion on the South Dakota State University campus at 977 11th Street, Brookings, S.D. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5p.m. For more information, call 605.688.6226 or visit the Ag Museum online. iGrow n Climate Outlook Pronounces El Niño is Dead BROOKINGS, S.D. - The climate outlook for July through September 2016 tells a story of warmer conditions and potentially wetter than average for the season ahead, said Laura Edwards, SDSU Extension Climate Field Specialist. Edwards points to the June 16, 2016 Climate Update released by National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center. “For South Dakota, the three months ahead are slightly more likely to be warmer than average,” said Edwards. “This projection is due to the atmospheric patterns that are expected, but also due to drier soils in much of the area. These dry soils can increase temperature near the surface faster than wet soils.” July precipitation outlook Based on the outlook, Edwards said that during July, precipitation across most of the country, including South Dakota, is projected to have equal chances of being be- low, near or above average. A different story unfolds as the seasonal outlook shows wetter than average conditions are more likely in the three-month period ahead, when you include August and September. “This is a change from previous climate outlooks that have been released by NOAA in recent months,” Edwards said. El Niño has been officially pronounced “dead” this month. “The majority of indicators no longer show El Niño-like temperatures and circulation patterns. We are now in the Neutral phase of El Niño, which is neither El Niño nor La Niña,” Edwards said, pointing to the latest NOAA outlook and others, which shows 70 percent or greater likelihood of La Niña conditions to begin sometime in the August-October period. The same likelihood remains for La Nina to continue through the 2016-17 winter season. “The latest July through September climate outlooks reflect this transition from El Niño to La Niña during the summer season,” Edwards said. She added that in eastern South Dakota, La Niña patterns in August tend to bring wetter conditions to that region. In September and October, the historical patterns are less clear, but lean towards warmer than average in October. What does this mean to agriculture? The impacts on agriculture are somewhat difficult to determine this year. “It is not often that South Dakota has warmer and wetter conditions in combination in the summer season,” Edwards said. She explained that it is more common to experience warm and dry conditions together. “Overall, this could be good news for row crop conditions given the critical pollination period for corn and physiological growth in soybeans, spring wheat, sunflowers and other crops,” she said. Rapid increases in temperature, along with the potential high humidity, should be monitored closely for potential heat stress in the cattle and livestock areas as the summer progresses. Pasture and forage productivity relies more on spring rainfall, but some moderate heat could be tolerated during this summer’s grazing season in the eastern part of the state. Moderate drought in Western South Dakota Western South Dakota had drier conditions this spring, as moderate drought has crept into the region in recent weeks. There have already been some reports of lower than average forage production this year. “Additional warm temperatures could exacerbate the drought conditions that have already affected the area,” Edwards said. niGrow Find BIG Savings... When You Place Your Ad In The Classifieds! 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These events provided growers with an opportunity to visit with SDSU Extension staff and get their questions answered about pest and disease management in their own fields,” explains Connie Strunk, SDSU Extension Plant Pathology Field Specialist. The SDSU Extension Wheat Walks were funded by the South Dakota Wheat Commission. Refreshments at each Wheat Walk location were provided by SD Wheat Inc. Certified Crop Advisor credits were available for those who needed them. For those unable to attend their local event, Strunk and other SDSU Extension staff provide a wheat walk summary below. Disease management: Emmanuel Byamukama, Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Plant Pathologist and Strunk led the plant pathology discussion. This discussion focused on identifying wheat diseases and their life cycles, how to manage diseases using cultural means, and using integrated pest management to determine when a fungicide intervention is warranted. “Different tools growers and consultants can utilize to help aid in their decision making to determine whether or not a fungicide application is needed were discussed,” Byamukama said. Diseases observed, depending on location, included stripe rust, wheat streak mosaic, barley yellow dwarf, and tan spot. “Stripe rust was found at very high levels in Pierre and can quickly become yield limiting, especially if it is found in high levels on the flag leaf which can result in a 50 percent yield reduction,” Strunk said. To predict probability of Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), tan spot, leaf rust, and other leaf spot diseases, the SDSU Climate and Weather Center hosts the small grains disease model online. Entomology: Adam Varenhorst, Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Field Crop Entomologist, stressed the importance of scouting for insects and using established thresholds when making insecticide application decisions. “By following integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, growers can help maintain insect predator populations, which can make insecticide applications unnecessary, saves input costs and helps growers avoid putting pesticides into the environment when they are not needed,” Varenhorst explains. His discussion also focused on the bird cherry oat aphid that was observed in many of the locations. Aphids, green bugs, and ladybugs were observed in some of the visited wheat fields. Evaluating Wheat Stands and Assessing Yields: David Karki and Ruth Beck, SDSU Extension Agronomy Field Specialists, and Chris Graham, SDSU Extension Agronomist, discussed how to properly determine the wheat growth stage and how to evaluate wheat stands and assess yield. They also covered the cold temperatures, frost damage, and variety selection. The majority of the winter wheat in the area was at or near heading and flowering. The spring wheat was at late tillering to early jointing stages. Soil Fertility: The soil fertility discussion, led by Anthony Bly, SDSU Extension Soils Field Specialist, focused on nitrogen with an emphasis on timing and the use of nitrogen for grain protein enhancement. Dwayne Beck, Dakota Lakes Research Farm Manager, also led a discussion on nitrogen timing and explained what treatments he was working with at Dakota Lakes. SDSU W.E.E.D. Project: Paul O. Johnson, SDSU Extension Weed Science Coordinator, and Gared Shaffer, SDSU Extension Weeds Field Specialist, identified weeds found at each location. They also shared that the W.E.E.D project will continue to evaluate herbicides used in new ways and will continue to focus their research on herbicide resistant weeds. 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