Writer: Robert Burns (903) 834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu Contact: Woody Anderson (800) 687-1212 WACO — To remain competitive in the world market and with growers in other parts of the state, Blacklands cotton growers will need to consider establishing a boll weevil eradication program, according to Woody Anderson, chairman of the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation. Anderson…
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: John LaRose, (573) 547-7212 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Irrigation and plant spacing will be the topics for two Texas researchers at the National Conservation Tillage Cotton and Rice Conference here, Jan. 20-21. Dr. Wayne Keeling, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station agronomist from Lubbock, will discuss irrigation conservation tillage…
Writer: Mary M. Porter, (972) 952-9232, m-porter@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Milt Engelke, (972) 952-9269, m-engelke@tamu.edu DALLAS — The name zoysia (pronounced ZOY-zee-a) may not roll off your tongue, but lots of people may soon be rolling out this new grass for home landscapes, golf courses and parks, according to Texas A&M University turfgrass breeder Dr. Milt…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. David Worrall (940) 552-9941, d-worall@tamu.edu VERNON–The wheat research program, a vital part of the work conducted at the Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center here, is symbolic of the center’s response to the changing needs of producers since it opened 25 years ago. “There was…
Writer: Kathleen Davis (979) 845-2872, k-davis3@tamu.edu Contact: Harvey Buehring (512) 767-5223, h-buehring@tamu.edu CORPUS CHRISTI — Improving overall customer satisfaction will be the purpose of a statewide grain sorghum industry meeting here Nov. 19-20 at the Best Western Sandy Shores Beach Hotel. “To promote growth of the grain sorghum industry, we must ensure consistency of supply,…
Writers: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101, j-bryant1@tamu.edu Pam Dillard (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@ tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Todd Baughman(940) 552-9941, ta-baughman@tamu.edu VERNON — Genetically engineered cottons are being tested across the Rolling Plains this season so growers can know how they perform in this region, says an agronomist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service here. “We want our…
Writer: Pam Dillard, (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu Contact: Emory Boring, (940) 552-9941, e-boring@tamu.edu VERNON — A cotton seeding rate study at two Rolling Plains sites by scientists of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas Agricultural Extension Service has shown area producers how they can cut costs and even improve their yield. The study, funded through…
Writer: Pam Dillard, (806) 359-5401, p-dillard@tamu.edu Contact: Bob Robinson, (806) 359-5401, b-robinson@tamu.edu AMARILLO — Cotton harvesting has begun in the Texas Panhandle, with average yields expected in most areas, according to spot checks with county agents with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Briscoe County Extension agent Pammy Millican said some 30,000 acres were planted this…
Writer: Joe Bryant (806) 746-6101 E-mail: J-bryant1@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. David Worrall (940) 552-9941 VERNON–In its 25th anniversary year at Vernon, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station is releasing a new grazing wheat named in honor of major benefactor. Lockett, a hard red winter wheat, is the result of more than a decade of research to develop…
Contact: Dr. Donald J. Dorsett, (979) 845-2761, d-dorsett@tamu.edu CANTON — The 1997 Texas State Hay Show, the 4-H-FFA Hay Judging Contest and the Texas Forage and Grassland Council annual meeting will be held in Canton Dec. 11-12. An afternoon tour of forage in the Canton area Dec. 11 will show various forage varieties, winter pastures…
