OSU Agriculture Field Days
Educational, Research-Based Events
2025 Field Days
Wheat & Forages Field Day
April 25, 2025
- 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at South Central Research Station (1105 E. Iowa Ave.) in Chickasha. Register by April 22.
- Topics will include wheat varieties, wheat hay forage yield and quality study, herbicide trials, nitrogen fertility and wheat breeding.
Lahoma Wheat Field Day
May 16, 2025
- 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at North Central Research Station (1 mile west of Lahoma on Highway 60) near Lahoma. Register by May 13.
- Topics will include wheat varieties, breeding, fertility, disease and pest and weed management. Continuing education units have been applied for, and lunch will be provided.
Panhandle Crops Field Day
Aug. 21, 2025
- 3:30 p.m.-8 p.m. at Oklahoma Panhandle Research & Extension Center near Goodwell. Register by Aug. 11.
- Topics will include irrigation, cotton, regenerative agriculture in semi-arid ecosystems, cover crops, forage systems, soil health, and corn and sorghum diseases and pests.
- Check in begins at 3 p.m. ODAFF Pesticide and Certified Crop Advisor CEUs will be offered.
Peanut & Cotton Field Day
Sept. 18, 2025
- 5-8 p.m. at Caddo Research Station (28054 County Street 2540) in Ft. Cobb. Peanut blasting will start at 2:30 p.m. Register by Sept. 10.
- Topics will include weed management, harvest aids in cotton, peanut varieties, soil fertility and irrigation management.
Cotton Field Day
Sept. 25, 2025
- 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Southwest Research & Extension Center (16721 US Hwy 283) in Altus. Register by Sept. 15.
- Topics include cotton variety trials, weed control, irrigation and chemical applications.
Livestock & Range Field Day
Oct. 9, 2025
- 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at research stations in the Oklahoma State University campus area in Stillwater, starting at Willard Sparks Beef Research Center (4224 West McElroy). Register by Oct. 1.
- Topics will include beef production, cattle and forage management, parasite control and production economics.
Other OSU Field Events
Vegetable Crops Open House - 9 a.m.-noon Aug. 28 at Cimarron Valley Research Station (10820 South Jardot) in Perkins. The event will focus on research that has taken place in central Oklahoma over the last three years, covering topics like asparagus and garlic cultivar performance, biochar impacts to soil in seedless watermelon and Italian-style roasting pepper crops, and squash bug control for delicata winter squash. For information, contact tyler.j.mason@okstate.edu
Prescribed Fire Workshop & Field Day - 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Okmulgee County Fairgrounds (1901 N Oklahoma Fairgrounds). The workshop includes expert presentations on fire ecology, wildlife habitat, rangeland benefits, safety and organizing local burn associations, followed by a live demonstration burn on tribal land. For more information, contact shelby.lofton@okstate.edu.
Fall Pecan Field Day - 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 25 at Frazier Pecan Farm (15023 East 171st St S) in Bixby. Participants will learn about fertilization, including soil testing, leaf sample interpretations, thinning orchards vs. wisping limbs, using old cultivars and older equipment on a smaller orchard and pecan weevil monitoring and control. For more information, contact becky.carroll@okstate.edu.
2025 Wheat Plot Tours (completed)
- May 5
- 10 a.m. at Rendel Farms in Miami
- Contact: Reba Palmer at (918) 542-1688
- 10 a.m. at Rendel Farms in Miami
- May 7
- 8 a.m. in Kingfisher
- Contact: Bryan Kennedy at (405) 375-3822
- 8 a.m. in Kingfisher
- May 8
- 9 a.m. in Alva
- Contact: Katy Barger at (580) 327-2786
- 6 p.m. in Cherokee
- Contact: Erin Metcalf at (580) 596-3131
- 9 a.m. in Alva
- May 9
- 9 a.m. in Weatherford
- Contact: Larry Bryen at (580) 323-2291
- Noon in Custer City
- Contact: Larry Bryen at (580) 323-2291
- 9 a.m. in Weatherford
- May 13
- 8 a.m. in Kildare
- Contact: MacKinzie Overman at (580) 362-3194
- 8 a.m. in Kildare
- May 15
- Noon in Greenfield
- Contact: Ashlyn Hunter at (580) 623-5195
- 6 p.m. at Brook Strader’s Farms in Homestead
- Contact: Shelby Robertson at (580) 227-3786
- Noon in Greenfield
- May 19
- 4 p.m. in Hooker
- Contact: Britt Hicks at (580) 338-7300
- 4 p.m. in Hooker
- May 20
- 9 a.m. in Balko
- Contact: Loren Sizelove at (580) 625-3464
- 9 a.m. in Balko
- May 21
- 10:30 a.m. at Musick Farms in Sentinel
- Contact: Paige Brittain at (580) 832-3356
- 10:30 a.m. at Musick Farms in Sentinel
A message from Dr. Senseman
“There is an interconnectivity between ag research and Extension, and we want to build on that interconnectivity. Our Field Days programming highlights OSU’s land-grant mission by bringing Extension and research together.”