The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service office in McLennan County and VirKim Fertilizer and Chemicals will host the Central Texas Turf and Pest Management Workshop on Sept. 10 in Hewitt. 

A closeup of green blades of grass
The Sept. 10 Central Texas Turf and Pest Management Workshop in Hewitt will feature a session on ornamental and turfgrass pest management. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)


The workshop will be held from 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Hewitt Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, 725 Sun Valley Boulevard. 

Cost is $80 if paid by the Sept. 4 deadline and $90 after that date. Download the registration form at https://tx.ag/CTXTurf24 and return by mail to VirKim Inc., 718 Sun Valley Blvd., Hewitt, TX, 75543. Make checks payable to VirKim/CEU Workshop.

Five Texas Department of Agriculture agricultural or structural continuing education units will be available for pesticide applicator license holders. Participants are required to bring their private pesticide applicator license card to the workshop.

On the agenda

Topics and speakers include:

  • Managing your outdoor environment using integrated pest management — Janet Hurley, AgriLife Extension senior program specialist, Texas A&M Department of Entomology, Dallas.
  • Termites and wood destroying insects — Hurley.
  • Program approach to weed control — Manuel Chavarria, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension turfgrass specialist and assistant professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Bryan-College Station.
  • Common structural pests in Texas — Hurley.
  • Persistent and emerging landscape plant diseases in Central Texas — Kevin Ong, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension plant pathologist, director of the Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, professor and assistant department head, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Bryan-College Station.
  • General laws and regulations — Don Renchie, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension pesticide safety program coordinator and associate director for the AgriLife Extension Agricultural and Environmental Safety Unit, Bryan-College Station.
  • Ornamental and turf pest management — Jacob Wightman, AgriLife Extension agricultural and environmental safety program specialist, AgriLife Extension Agricultural and Environmental Safety Unit, Bryan-College Station.  
Print Friendly, PDF & Email