(NMB) The 2025 MSU Extension Pest Management tour for pesticide applicators will be in Havre and Chinook on Monday September 29th. Hill County MSU Extension agent Colleen Pegar says this is the last opportunity for applicators to get their re-certification credits.
‘The Pest Management Tour is basically the last chance that MSU Extension puts on for applicators, private applicators, pesticide applicators to get their six re-certification credits in the course of their five-year term and so the five-year cycle ends December 31st.”
The event begins at 8am on Monday September 29th in The Hill County 4H Chuckwagon and will include a variety of topics like management of grasshoppers, alfalfa insect pest management, management of diseases in small grains, weed management in crop rotations, regulatory pesticide education updates and more. To Sign up for the Havre Pest Management tour contact Colleen at the MSU Hill County Extension office at 406-400-2333.
The Chinook Event will be held in the Commercial building at the Blaine County Fairgrounds beginning at 8:50am. To sign up for the Chinook event call the Blaine County Extension office at 406-357-3200
Other Pest management tour stops include Chinook, which is also on the 29th, Chester, Shelby, Fort Benton, Conrad and Choteau
