Happy New Year! As mentioned in the last update, the “Speaking of Oats…” webinar series is back, and the next one will be held on Tuesday, January 20th, at 11:00 am EST (UTC -5).

Two students from Ali Babar’s lab at the University of Florida will present:
1) Samuel Adewale - “Integrating genomics, enviromics, and high-throughput phenotyping tools for improving biomass and grain yield in southern US oat germplasm”, and
2) Janam Acharya - “Genetics of stem and crown rust resistance in southern US oat germplasm”

Please register here. You can check the time offset for your location at World Time Buddy.

Take note, too, that Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) has two webinars coming up that may be of interest:
1) Pablo Sandro - “Making Sense of Wisconsin Oat and Barley Trial Data”, January 16th at noon CST (UTC-6), and
2) Martin Larsen - “Don't Call It a Comeback: Small Grains Back in Rotation”, January 20th at noon CST (UTC-6).

Hope to see you there!