Events

2025 EVENTS - MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Date	Event	Location	More Information
June 6	SuperDARN 2025 Workshop	Southern Piedmont AREC	Contact Mike Ruohoniemi: mikeruo@vt.edu - 540-231-1482
July 31	Row Crop Field Day	Southern Piedmont AREC	Contact Margaret Kenny: makenny@vt.edu - 434-818-5545
Aug 14	Leadership Council Meeting	2407 Cox Road, Blackstone, VA 23824	9 AM - 12 PM
Sept 13	Family & Farm Day	Southern Piedmont AREC	9 AM - 2 PM Visit our Facebook Event Page
Sept 18	Forage Field Day (Tentative)	Southern Piedmont AREC	Please check back - information coming soon

Click below to view previous Field Day photos:

A man in a wheat field talks to attendees at the Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Field Day

Field Day attendees walk through a wheat field

A close up of a wheat plant with rust evident on the leaves.

Two men hold and discuss a leaf from a wheat plant.

Four people sit around a conference table during a presentation.

A close up of a wheat plant with rust evident on the leaves.

A group of people stop to examine plants close-up during a wheat field tour.

A woman wearing sunglasses holds the leaf of a wheat plant in the field.

A sign labeled Kentucky 32 is shown in the ground in front of visitors examining the grass during the Forage & Livestock Field Day

A group of field day attendees examine the grasses along the edge of field trial plots.

Visitors walk around grass plots with tractors and trailers in the background.

A woman in cap discusses the field plots with a man in cap.

A group of four men and a woman stand in the field during a field day presentation.

Orange and white flags line the edge of a field as field day attendees examine the trial plots.

Three men discuss grasses along edge of field.

A VCE agent holding a microphone speaks to a group during field day.

A man behind a table prepares a hand-held device for use as a woman with microphone speaks to the field day attendees.

A man in cap stands beside a table as he speaks to the field day attendees lining the edge of a field.

A black cow gazes through metal fencing.

A man in cap speaks to a group near the livestock area of a field.

Three researchers in the field giving a presentation using microphone.

A group seated at tables views a video on a large screen.

People loading into wagons for field day tours

Field day attendees looking at plant samples set up in booth.

john deere tractor in the field

A professor in the field speaks to attendees at the field day.

People seated in the auditorium at tables.

A drone in the field prepared for a demonstration flight.

A woman wearing a hat and glasses holds a tobacco leaf in the field.

A young man with a microphone speaks in the field.

A weather station in the field at Southern Piedmont AREC

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