PFI Field Day: Specialty Hybrid Corns for Food and Feed
Event Details
3 Boone St. (County Road E57)
Luther, IA 50156
Contact Name: Practical Farmers of Iowa
Email: info@practicalfarmers.org
Phone: 5152325661
Website: practicalfarmers.org
Event Description
Description:
The field day will consist of presentations made by various experts in the field of specialty corn, visual displays of products, and a field tour followed by a meal using specialty corns.
Topics:
•High lysine corn
•High carotenoid corn
•High anthocyanin corn
•Floury corn
•Waxy corn
•Resistant starch corn.
The Company:
Genetic Enterprises International is a corn breeding program to develop hybrid dent corn and hybrid specialty corns for food and feed.
Directions:
Find the field day at the southwest corner of the intersection of State Route 17 and Boone County Road E-57.
Lunch provided; although this event is free, an RSVP is mandatory, as only 40 attendees can be accommodated. RSVP for meal: Lauren Zastrow, lauren@practicalfarmers.org, (515) 232-5661 by Friday, September 11.
Sponsored by: Boone County Soil and Water Conservation District
