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Note to editors: A second K-State graduate team competed, but did not place, in the North Central Weed Science Society Collegiate Weed Science Contest. Members, graduate students in agronomy, included Jason Waite, Bucyrus; Amar Godar, Manhattan; and Justin Petrosino, Sandusky, Ohio.
News release prepared by: Katie Starzec, 785-532-7105, kstarzec@k-state.edu

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

K-STATE GRADUATE TEAM PLACES IN COLLEGIATE WEED SCIENCE CONTEST

MANHATTAN -- A graduate student team from Kansas State University was first in the team sprayer calibration event and was the third place overall graduate team at the North Central Weed Science Society Collegiate Weed Science Contest, Aug. 14, in Carlyle, Ill.

SGS Alvey Ag Research, a contract research company in Carlyle, hosted the contest.

The four events in the contest included weed identification, diagnosis of herbicide injury and symptomology, field sprayer calibration, and farmer problem solving. Anita Dille, associate professor, and Dallas Peterson, professor, from K-State's department of agronomy, coached the team.

Team members, all graduate students in agronomy and all from Manhattan, included Joy Abit, John Frihauf, Meshack Ndou and Haydee Ramirez.