Pure Seed Testing- Week 10

My last week in the Willamette Valley! I spent the week soaking up time with all of the friends I had made! 

Not pictured, but I spent lots of time this week in the office filing seed tests!

I double-cut these bluegrass plots with the 1.25" reel mower and was amazed by how beautiful it looked in the heat of summer! 

I did more weighing out this week. In this picture, I am weighing out bluegrass progenies to be sent to North Carolina and used in the Oregon turf plots. 

I also had to say goodbye to my cabin and the amazing landlords that I had this summer! This tiny cabin will be missed!

I was also able to be able to go white water rafting on the Deschutes River with my Oregon family!! We had a blast, and it was a great way to spend my last full day. 

 

Pure Seed Testing- Week 9

 

This week, I got to spend some time with a few coworkers, as well as Crystal and Mark, on their boat! We took the boat up the river to downtown Portland and saw many cool things along the way!

At the end of the week, I trained one of my coworkers on using the lightbox and Turf Analyzer! 

This week began with lots of weighing out seed for shipment and internal use. In this picture, I was weighing out a synthetic blend of perennial ryegrass seed from a circle. 

I took a picture of this specific plot of perennial ryegrass because of how pretty it was! It is a European variety that recovered from traffic excellently. 

Pure Seed Testing- Week 8

This week I took lots of drought DIA images! In the picture, you can see part of the A-List trials I took pictures of. I also took drought images of the TWCA Rainout shelter. 

I spent more time mowing this week. Above, you can see me on the John Deere reel mower for the 0.5" turf plots. 

This week, I began working on weighing! This picture is of some mill checks that I weighed out of Kentucky Bluegrass seed yield trials. Tese mill checks were sent to our testing lab. 

In this picture you can see me weighing bluegrass hybrid seed after it had been hand-thrashed. This seed was individually weighed and recorded in a spreadsheet. 

I got to visit one of the greenhouses with the marketing team and saw the beautiful Powder Blue fine fescue starts!

I spent some time writing thank-you letters to sponsors of the Bill Rose Foundation and worked on social media posts for the marketing team.