By Wendy Becker Roosevelt County Extension When Lilly Johnson received grand champion round robin honors at the Roosevelt County Fair, she was able to go on and represent Roosevelt County in the Champion of Champions Round Robin Showmanship in Circle. This event is in its 22nd year and hosted by McCone County 4-H. The event is for senior division winners. Representatives throughout the region

The wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), is a major pest of wheat across the northern Great Plains of North America. The wheat pest has a wide host range, attacking numerous wild grasses and cultivated cereals in crop and grassland habitats, where it is, in turn, attacked by two native braconid parasitoids. Quantitative assessments of sawfly infestation and parasitism

WHEAT STEM SAWFLY LARVAE IN STUB COW PEA (BLACK-EYED PEA), POTENTIAL NECTAR SOURCE FOR BENEFICIAL PARASITOIDS LANDSCAPE SELECTION OF AREAS CONTAINING OVERLAP OF CRP WITH ADJACENT WHEAT CROP MAP Overall, this work suggests that a majority of grass species common in grassland habitats have very low levels of infestation by C. cinctus and, thus, are unlikely to be important reservoirs of either

The bus barn expansion at Wolf Point High School should be completed in the near future if progress goes as anticipated. “It was supposed to be on Oct. 9,” Wolf Point Superintendent of Schools Dr. David Perkins said last week. “It should be done quickly. A lot of the framing is up.” Improvements on the bus barn include room for more than two buses and a space for maintenance. The project