Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Phyllis Dyer, 940-552-9941, pmdyer@ag.tamu.edu Dr. Paul DeLaune, 940-552-9941, pbdelaune@ag.tamu.edu VERNON – A 10-year effort by Texas A&M AgriLife Research on the Buck Creek watershed will end this month and be recognized with a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Texas Environmental Excellence Award for agriculture in May. Buck Creek was [...]
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu SIMONTON – Producers throughout the Texas Gulf Coast region will get a firsthand look at Akaushi cattle and receive an overall update on the cattle market during the May 10 Upper Gulf Coast Ranch Expo in Simonton. The event, to be held at the Twinwood Cattle Co., 4430 Guyler Road, [...]
Central Texas wheat took a freeze hit, but it could have been much worse Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – There was considerable damage to Central Texas wheat from a late-March freeze, but it could have been a lot worse, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service crops expert. “We still don’t [...]
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Delbert Gatlin, 979-847-9333, d-gatlin@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the department of wildlife and fisheries sciences at Texas A&M University are celebrating the 40 year anniversary of their aquaculture facility and its recently completed pond complex renovation. The 40-acre Aquacultural Research and Teaching Facility [...]
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Ed Bynum, 806-677-5600, EBynum@ag.tamu.edu AMARILLO – Russian wheat aphids, brown wheat mites and greenbugs – they are all beginning to show up in High Plains and South Plains wheat fields, and primarily because of the drought, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist. But the big [...]
Webinar to discuss details April 4 Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Brittany Grube, Brittany.grube@agnet.tamu.edu Dr. Megan Clayton, 361-265-9201, megan.clayton@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – “Getting Ready to Treat Mesquite” is the topic of the April 4 webinar hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service as a part of the Texas Range Webinar Series. Honey mesquite can [...]
Public input sought to help pinpoint major hog trouble areas Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contacts: Jared Timmons, 254-485-4886, jbtimmons@ag.tamu.edu Mark Tyson, 979-845-4698. mark.tyson@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Feral hog management experts need your help, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service associate who deals with the unwelcome critters. “AgriLife Extension has developed an online [...]
Ranch Management University set April 15-19 in College Station Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Larry Redmon, 979-845-4826, l-redmon@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – All ranchers may be “planning for profit,” but some might have a hard time capitalizing on it without key advice offered at the annual Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Ranch Management University, [...]
Hard freeze likely damaged much of fall-emerged wheat Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – A large part of the Texas winter wheat crop could have been damaged by hard freezes March 24-26, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. “Temperatures in the teens and low 20s appear to have been common [...]
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Arash Rashed, 806-354-5811, ARashed@ag.tamu.edu Dr. Charlie Rush, 806-354-5804, crush@ag.tamu.edu AMARILLO – Potato planting in northwest Texas will begin in about a month, but now is the time to look for the potato psyllid, a growing problem to the industry, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research study. And [...]
