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…
WESLACO — The predicted return of smoke and haze to the Rio Grande Valley skies this Memorial Day weekend from fires in Mexico and Central America will likely have little or no effect on area fiel d crops, according to experts at the Texas Agricultural Research and Extension Service in Weslaco. Lack of rain, they…
COLLEGE STATION Successful partnerships between research scientists and the produce industry for improved fruits and vegetables will be showcased during an open house of the Texas A&M University Vegetable Improvement Center April 29. The open house will be from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the center, 1500 Research Parkway, Suite 120, Centeq Research Plaza,…
COLLEGE STATION When graduate student Chris Freeman hit upon an idea for advanced studies in horticulture, he wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. But he won’t have to. Freeman is researching how to grow vegetables organically in water. “I won’t need soil,” Freeman said of his hopeful venture. He envisions providing world-class chefs at…
COLLEGE STATION Years ago, the missions established by Spanish priests were restored around San Antonio and other places in South Texas. But avid heirloom gardeners said much restoration is left to do. Fully restored, the missions might have rows of corn, wheat, cotton, figs, grapes, beans and various fruit, all carefully irrigated by water-filled ditches,…
