COLLEGE STATION — Pest management, research and innovations will highlight the Texas and Southwest Greenhouse Growers Conference Nov. 10-12 at the Hilton in College Station. The pest management sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 11 with discussions on Integrated Pest Management, a new IPM database at Texas A&M University, disease diagnosis and management, solving…
WESLACO — If you’re not into joining groups and you like chile peppers, this may be your kind of organization: anybody can join and there are no officers, dues, or fees. It’s called the National Pepper Conference and its co-founder, who started this “club” in 1972, says they are “totally unorganized,” yet it is the…
COLLEGE STATION — Tomatoes were ripe this year when the National Science Foundation handed out some $40 million for a massive national plant genome effort paralleled to the human genome project. A $7.8 million grant will take researchers at Cornell and Texas A&M universities and The Institute for Genomics Research to the innermost parts of…
COLLEGE STATION — Texas pecan producers this fall plan to shell out about $75,000 in the first of an annual program aimed at convincing consumers of the nuts’ tasty, healthy aspects. A checkoff fund approved by Texas growers in August will take one-half cent from every pound harvested on commercial pecan orchards this year, and…
COLLEGE STATION — Meeting future markets will be the theme for the 13th annual Texas Herb Growers and Marketers Association conference here Sept. 18- 20 at the Memorial Student Center on the Texas A&M University campus. The public is invited to participate. Registration is $85 for association members or $120 for non-members. A series of…
EAST TEXAS — Approximately 150 East Texans showed up for the 1998 Overton Center Horticultural Field Day, held June 18 at the Texas A&M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Overton in Rusk County. Some attended in their professional capacity, being involved with the commercial bedding plant industry. Others, for whom gardening is a…
WESLACO — Low market prices, the drought, urbanization, and a looming virus are important issues too serious to ignore, but as the 1997-98 citrus season ends in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, industry leaders are looking on the bright side. “Fruit quality was excellent, more fruit was sold to the more lucrative fresh fruit market…
EAST TEXAS — Though some parts of East Texas received scattered showers recently, pastures remain dry, dryland horticultural crops remain at risk and fish die-offs are being reported in heavily stocked ponds and lakes, according to reports from faculty with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. In Gregg County, scattered showers throughout the county only greened…
COLLEGE STATION — Plant nurseries and greenhouses — two of the state’s largest consumers of water — are stepping up and responding to the challenge of conserving water. A study at Texas A&M University may help the owners decide which of these systems is the best and most efficient for them. Subirrigation systems allow plant…
OVERTON — Eleven years ago, when Marty Baker moved to East Texas, plastic mulch was used only by the rare grower. Today, Baker – a horticulturist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service — knows of more than 3,000 acres of melons and vegetables grown using the black plastic film. For those 11 years, Baker has…
