SONORA – The Academy for Ranch Management will conduct two prescribed burn workshops in 2012 at the Texas AgriLife Research Station near Sonora Feb. 16-18 and March 8-10. The station is located on State Highway 55 between Sonora and Rocksprings. The first workshop, “Prescribed Burning School,” is a basic course providing information on fire, weather, [...]
FLOYDADA – The Texas AgriLife Extension Service offices in Crosby and Floyd counties will conduct their Caprock Crop Production Conference from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Floyd County Friends Unity Center. The center is 6 miles from Floydada on U.S. Highway 70 between Floydada and Lockney. “We will have a number of agricultural [...]
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND – An exotic, large species of shrimp is being found once again in the Gulf of Mexico and posing a potential threat to the $700 million Gulf shrimping industry, according to Tony Reisinger, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service agent for coastal and marine resources in South Texas. “They’re known as black tiger [...]
