Texas A&M AgriLife wheat field day set for May 14 in Bushland
Disease and insect updates, forage discussion and tour on agenda
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas A&M AgriLife Research will host a wheat field day and plot tour on May 14 in Bushland.
Registration for the free event begins at 8:30 a.m. at the AgriLife Research Station, 2301 Experiment Station Road. The wheat field day will conclude before noon with the annual plot tour.
Brent Auvermann, Ph.D., director of the Texas A&M AgriLife High Plains Research and Extension Center, will open the event with a brief overview of the new center located in Canyon and how it ties in with the research being done at Bushland.
Field day topics
The following topics and speakers will be featured:
- Texas Wheat Producers Board update.
- Statewide variety testing update and emerging issues, Brandon Gerrish, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension statewide small grains specialist and assistant professor, Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Bryan-College Station.
- Disease issues in wheat, Nolan Anderson, Ph.D., AgriLife Research and AgriLife Extension plant pathologist and assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Canyon.
- Insect issues in wheat, Tyler Gilreath, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension entomologist and assistant professor, Department of Entomology, Canyon.
- Wheat forage and the dairy industry, Juan Pineiro, DVM, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension dairy specialist and assistant professor, Department of Animal Science, Canyon.
- Texas A&M AgriLife Wheat Breeding Program update, Jackie Rudd, Ph.D., AgriLife Research wheat breeder and professor, and Shannon Baker, Ph.D., AgriLife Research assistant research scientist, both in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Canyon.
The plot tour with guided information will follow.
For more information, contact Kevin Heflin, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist and assistant professor, Department of Soil and Crop Science, at [email protected].
