Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu
Contacts: Blayne Reed, 806-291-5267, blayne.reed@ag.tamu.edu
John Villalba, 806-995-3721, john.villalba@agnet.tamu.edu
PLAINVIEW – The annual Hale and Swisher Crops Conference, conducted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices in the two counties, will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. April 14 at the Justice Center Assembly Room, 225 Broadway St. in Plainview.
Individual registration is $20 due upon arrival. The fee will include lunch.
Five Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units – one general, two integrated pest management, one laws and regulations, and one drift – will be offered.
For more information, call the AgriLife Extension office in Hale County at 806-291-5267.
“We have a wide array of topics in a host of different areas this year, so I expect there will be something of interest to just about anybody involved in agriculture,” said Blayne Reed, AgriLife Extension integrated pest management agent in Hale, Swisher and Floyd counties.
Topics and speakers will include:
– Protecting Yourself from the Sun, Deana Sageser, AgriLife Extension family and consumer sciences agent in Hale County.
– Drought Tolerance Testing in Corn, Scott Adair, DuPont Pioneer representative, Plainview.
– Grain Crop Irrigation Scheduling and Plant Growth Regulator Use in Wheat, Dr. Jourdan Bell, AgriLife Extension agronomist, Amarillo.
– Saving and Investing in an Agricultural Business, Brandon Snyder, and Zachary Barton, financial services professionals, and Dan Gregory, New York Life insurance agent, all of Lubbock.
– Laws and Regulations, Cheryl Goswick, Texas Department of Agriculture.
– Applying Soil and Water Conservation Practices and Spray Drift Management, John Villalba, AgriLife Extension agent in Swisher County.
– Sugarcane Aphid Status Update and Management Options, and 2015 Bt Corn Refuge Management with Insect Management Options, Dr. Pat Porter, AgriLife Extension entomologist, Lubbock.
– Practical Lessons from 2014 Research Trials in Weed and Insect Integrated Pest Management, Emerging Herbicide Technologies, and Cotton Pest Management, Reed.
– Management of Verticillium Wilt in Cotton and Other Crop Diseases, Dr. Jason Woodward, AgriLife Extension plant pathologist, Lubbock.
– Area Sorghum Variety Trials and 2015 Alternative Crop Outlook, Dr. Calvin Trostle, AgriLife Extension agronomist, Lubbock.
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