2025 Hancock Agricultural Research Station Field Day

Troy Fishler, Superintendent, UW-Hancock Agricultural Research Station, N3909 County Highway V, Hancock, WI 54943, email: troy.fishler@wisc.edu, work mobile: 715-935-0088, office: 715-249-5961. HARS’ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HancockAgResearchStation HARS’ Instagram Account: https://www.instagram.com/uwmadison_hancock_ars/ HARS’ Website: http://hancock.ars.wisc.edu/  

Hancock Agricultural Research Station Annual Potato Field Day Agenda

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Thursday July 10, 2025 1:00PM – 4:00 PM   Kick-off & Introductions (HARS Grounds) 1:00-1:15pm 1:00–1:15—Welcome from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and Senator Rachael Cabral-Guevara (Senate District 19, Invited)   Field Wagon Tours & Potato Research Updates 1:25pm-3:55pm MC: Guolong Liang   C26 East End of Field

1:25 – 1:40 Matt Ruark – ‘Nitrogen Optimization Update’

C31 South End of Field

1:45 – 2:00 Jeff Endelman – ‘Potato Breeding Program Update’

K1 East End of Field

2:10 – 2:25 Russ Groves – ‘Insect Management in Potato and Processing Vegetables’

K2 East End of Field

2:30 – 2:45 Francisco Arriaga/Evan Freed – ‘Measuring Neonicotinoid and Nitrate Load Losses from Potato Production in Sandy Soil’

K7 East End of Field

2:50 – 3:15 Jed Colquhoun/Steven Hall/AJ Jeninga – ‘Water Quality and Weed Management Research Updates’

S14 North End of Field

3:20 – 3:35 Amanda Gevens – ‘Potato Disease Research Update’

Front of Historic Barn

3:45 – 3:55 Yi Wang – ‘Using Precision Agriculture Technologies in Vegetable Crop Production’

3:55 – 4:00 Field Day Wrap-up

  **Social Hour will begin immediately after wrap-up around our outdoor pavilion. A grilled chicken dinner w/sweet corn, baked potato, potato salad and refreshments will be provided compliments of the WPVGA’s Associate Division! *Self-guided tours of the UW Potato & Vegetable Storage Research Facility and A.R. Albert & Villetta Albert-Hawley Horticultural Garden will be available throughout the day.