The Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Horticultural Sciences will host a field day on Oct. 4 in Somerville. 

A pile of wine grapes still on the stem before being processed will be part of the horticultural sciences field day
The Department of Horticultural Sciences’ field day will cover crops such as table grapes, wine grapes and Muscadine grapes. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

The event will be held from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Texas A&M University Horticulture Teaching, Research and Extension Center, 3199 County Road 269. Cost is $25, which includes lunch, wine and fruit tasting. Online registration is available at https://tx.ag/HORTFieldDay.

About the event

The field day will include guided tours of the greenhouse and nursery facility, field research plots, vineyard and pecan orchard. The facility features 22,000 square feet of greenhouse space and over 130 acres of research field plots. 

Crops to be covered include: 

  • Pecan
  • Apricot
  • Wine grape
  • Table grape
  • Muscadine grape
  • Pear
  • Asian persimmon
  • Kiwifruit
  • Pineapple guava
  • Fig
  • Potato
  • Pepper
  • Melon
  • Bald cypress
  • Rose
  • Various ornamental

Three Texas Department of Agriculture pesticide applicator license continuing education units — two general and one IPM — are available

For more information, contact Tim Hartmann, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension specialist and assistant professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, at [email protected].

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