The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will hold the annual Right-of-Way, ROW, and Ornamental and Turf, OAT, conference on Jan. 30 in Amarillo. The AgriLife Extension offices in Deaf Smith and Potter counties will host the meeting.

A feral hog rooting in a field. Control of feral hogs will be one of the topics at the annual Right-of-Way, and ornamental and turf conference.
Wild hog control is one of the topics slated for the annual Right-of-Way and Ornamental and Turf conference on Jan. 30 in Amarillo. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

The conference will be held at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Amarillo, 6500 Amarillo Blvd. W. Registration is $25 and begins at 8 a.m. The program begins at 9 a.m. and concludes at 3:30 p.m.

Five Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units — three integrated pest management, one general, and one laws and regulations — will be available. 

Topics and speakers

  • Laws and regulations, Cheryl Goswick, assistant regional director-pesticides, Texas Department of Agriculture, Amarillo.
  • Spray drift, Shane Medlock, account manager, The Orion Companies, Lubbock.
  • Wild hog control, Mark Jones, national sales manager, Scimetrics, Wellington, Colorado. 
  • Red flour beetle — local identification and control methods, Pat Porter, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension entomologist and professor, Department of Entomology, Lubbock. 
  • Tree care, pest and disease ID, and treatment options, Ethan Law, Texas A&M Forest Service woodland ecologist, Amarillo. 

For more information, contact Josie Strnad, AgriLife Extension agent, Deaf Smith County, at 806-364-3573 or [email protected], or Megan Eikner, AgriLife Extension agriculture and natural resources agent in Potter County, at 806-373-0313 or [email protected].

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