Department Updates

New turfgrass handbook available through AgriLife Extension

April 29th, 2016

Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, [email protected]: Dr. Casey Reynolds, 979-845-0603, [email protected] COLLEGE STATION – Homeowners and professional turfgrass managers now have a new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service publication available to help them when selecting herbicides, insecticides and fungicides to control common turfgrass pests. “It’s a pretty extensive document that I think will be useful to… Read More →

The 3rd annual Bennett Trust Resource Stewardship Conference

April 28th, 2016

In 1914, R. E. Dickson admonished landowners “Don’t pray for rain if you can’t take care of what you get.” At the 3rd annual Bennett Trust Resource Stewardship Conference held in Kerrville April 14 and 15, Steve Nelle, Natural Resource Conservation Service (retired), explained to the gathered landowners that land stewardship is the backbone for… Read More →

2016 Spring Ranch Management University took place April 4-8 in College Station

April 28th, 2016

If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it. That was the underlying theme at the 2016 Spring Ranch Management University (RMU) which took place April 4-8 at the G. Rollie White Visitor’s Center on Texas A&M University’s O.D. Butler Animal Science Complex in College Station. Forty-six people attended the five-day program coordinated by Dr…. Read More →

Texas A&M AgriLife spring field day set May 4 at Chillicothe

April 21st, 2016

Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, [email protected]: Dr. Paul DeLaune, 940-552-9941 ext. 207, [email protected]. Emi Kimura, 940-552-9941 ext. 233, [email protected] CHILLICOTHE – Wheat, canola, triticale and cropping systems will be highlighted during a field day May 4 at Texas A&M AgriLife Research’s Chillicothe Station, located south of Chillicothe on Farm-to-Market Road 392.   Registration will be from 7:45-8:30… Read More →

Multi-County Wheat Tour set May 6 in Taylor, Callahan counties

April 21st, 2016

Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, [email protected] Contact: Robert Pritz, 325-672-6048, [email protected] ABILENE – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will conduct the Multi-County Wheat Tour beginning at 8:30 a.m. May 6 at the Taylor County variety test plots. The test plots are located off State Highway 351 on County Road 521, also known as Mesquite Lane…. Read More →

Bushland Canola Field Tour set for May 3

April 21st, 2016

Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, [email protected]: Dr. Jourdan Bell, 806-677-5600, [email protected] Voyles, 806-373-0713, [email protected] BUSHLAND – The Bushland Canola Field Tour has been set for May 3 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Bush Farm, located at 600 Farm-to-Market Road 2381 north of Bushland.   The tour will begin with registration from 9-9:30 a.m. and conclude… Read More →

Water well trainings, screenings set for May in West Texas

April 21st, 2016

  The Texas Water Resources Institute is partnering with AgriLife Extension and the Texas Well Owner Network on these programs, they said. “Private well owners in Texas are independently responsible for monitoring the quality of their wells,” said Drew Gholson, AgriLife Extension program specialist and network coordinator, College Station. “They are responsible for ensuring their… Read More →

Alligator cleanup

April 7th, 2016

Clean-up efforts along the Geronimo and Alligator Creeks are paying off, according to Texas AgriLife Extension Program Specialist Ward Ling. This is the fourth year Ling has coordinated a clean-up in the watershed that drains to Geronimo and Alligator creeks. It is part of the watershed protection plan that was established for those creeks in… Read More →

The 3rd Biennial Genetics of Maize-Microbe Interactions Workshop

April 6th, 2016

Over seventy people from throughout the United States and four other countries gathered in Rudder Tower March 30 – April 2 for the 3rd Biennial Genetics of Maize-Microbe Interactions Workshop (GMMI). Scientists from ten states in the U.S., as well as Germany, South Africa, Kenya and China participated in the workshop. Twelve Universities were represented… Read More →

Bennett Trust Land Stewardship Conference April 14-15

March 28th, 2016