New Texas Crops Newsletter offered by AgriLife Extension

Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, [email protected]
Contact: Dr. Gaylon Morgan, 979-845-0870, [email protected]

COLLEGE STATION – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is now offering a monthly Texas Crops Newsletter to provide timely and multi-discipline crop management information to Texas producers, consultants and allied industries.

The inaugural newsletter was distributed Feb. 13, and each of the following newsletters will be distributed electronically, said Dr. Gaylon Morgan, AgriLife Extension state cotton specialist in College Station.

Anyone who would like to get the newsletter via email can subscribe by going to http://agrilife.org/texasrowcrops/ or contacting their local AgriLife Extension agent. Back issues will also be stored at this site.

The information in the newsletter will be provided by crop and soil scientists, pathologists and entomologists with AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M University, and will be based on the relevant research from across Texas and the nation, Morgan said.

Each issue will contain multiple articles about crops across the state, including cotton, corn, sorghum, wheat and other row crops, he said. As appropriate, regional management articles will also be included.

“We want to help producers across the state address the issues they are seeing in the field on a timely basis,” said Dr. Clark Neely, AgriLife Extension state small grains/oilseeds specialist, College Station.

Topics and authors included in the first edition are:

– Early Rust Pressure in Texas Wheat, Neely.

– Grain Sorghum and Resistance to Sugarcane Aphids, Dr. Ronnie Schnell, AgriLife Extension state cropping systems specialist, College Station.

– Using Topguard To Control Cotton Root Rot: Pay Attention To That Label!, Dr. Thomas Isakeit, AgriLife Extension plant pathologist, College Station.