Don’t let the last weed standing reproduce
Herbicide weed resistance battle must be fought at different levels
Farm & Ranch
Gulf Coast Grape Growers Field Day to be held in Cat Spring Feb. 7
The 28th annual Gulf Coast Grape Growers Field Day educational program is scheduled for 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Cat Spring Agricultural Society Hall.
Wildfire preparation meeting set Jan. 9 in Canadian
The Northeast Texas Panhandle “Wildfire Preparedness Meeting” will be on Jan. 9 in Jones Pavilion, 1101 N. 6th St., Canadian. This joint meeting is hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agriculture and natural resources agents in Ochiltree, Lipscomb, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler and Collingsworth counties. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., and there is a…
Break out the bubbly: Sparkling Wine 101
Get to know varieties and how Texas’ sparkling wine market continues to grow
Preston assumes new role as disaster assessment, recovery agent
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has hired Curtis Preston to serve as the agency’s disaster assessment and recovery agent for District 2. He will be based in Lubbock. “Curtis has served AgriLife Extension as a county agent since 1985 and is a true asset to District 2,” said Michael Clawson, AgriLife Extension district administrator,…
Hemp in the High Plains to be discussed in Amarillo Jan. 13
A “First Things” Considerations for Industrial Hemp in Texas program will be hosted Jan. 13 by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, 6500 W. Amarillo Blvd., Amarillo. Registration is $20 per person and will begin at 8:30 a.m. The program will be from 9 a.m. to…
Hands-on foot-and-mouth disease field training available for the first time to North American private sector livestock veterinarians
Texas A&M AgriLife and Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are offering the first-ever field training for North American private-sector veterinarians and state and federal animal health officials for foot-and-mouth disease.
Educational industrial hemp production seminars set for January
Meetings planned in Abilene, Big Spring, San Angelo
2020 High Plains Crop Profitability Analyzer available to producers
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has released an updated 2020 High Plains Crop Profitability Analyzer budgeting tool just in time to help Texas High Plains producers plan for the new year, said Justin Benavidez, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist in Amarillo. “This decision aid assists producers in making management decisions on the optimal crop mix…
Agriculture’s big data keeps getting bigger; needs home to make greater impacts
Massive amounts of agricultural data are being collected around the world by scientists utilizing drones for remote sensing, agronomic yield measurements or plant breeding variety trials. Seth Murray, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research corn breeder, College Station, called upon the agricultural scientific community to address the lack of plans or infrastructure to catalogue and…
