Updates In Our Region: Dairy Heat Stress Roadshow Prepares Producers Dairy researchers and extension specialists have long recognized the results of heat stress on dairy cows. In response to this need a Dairy Heat Stress Road Show was developed to deliver educational programs in 4 states and Puerto Rico. A total of 260 participants [...]
The Texas AgriLife Extension Service of McLennan County will be hosting a “What’s Next: Cattle & Forage Seminar” on May 24, 2012 at MCC Emergency Services Center, located at 7601 Steinbeck Bend Road in Waco, Tx. Registration will be from 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. The program will begin at 9:00 am and conclude at [...]
The Texas AgriLife Extension Agriculture committees in Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Limestone and McLennan County are sponsoring a Small Grain Tour on Friday, April 27, 2012. Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. in Niemeier’s Barn, west of McGregor on Plainview Road (off of Farmview Parkway FM 938). The tour will conclude at Niemeier’s [...]
Yesterday I scouted wheat fields for armyworms. In a field of wheat that followed milo, the armyworm numbers were around threshold, the wheat plant was not very vegetative, and we counted 1 to 2 armyworms every row foot. The majority of armyworms we found where large. In a field of wheat that followed corn silage [...]
As we received some consistent rainfall and pastures begin to green upFor the first time in a long time, all of Central Texas received rain. There are areas that have received over 14.5 inches since the first of September. Water is standing in many areas, we are recharging our deep soil moisture which has been [...]
(Be sure to check the Texas A&M Plant Pathology home page at: http://plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/oakwilt.html and http://plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/trees/tree4.html for more information.) Fall (October) is a great time to plant trees, but it is also important that we protect the trees that we have. The major disease threat to live and red oak trees in our area is oak [...]
By Allen Knutson Extension Entomologist, Texas AgriLife Extension Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas Two species of armyworms attack forage and field crops in north Texas. The fall armyworm is most abundant during August through early November in north Texas and feeds primarily on Bermuda grass, wheat and rye grass, although it attacks many [...]
October 18, 2011 By: Blair Fannin COLLEGE STATION – Farmers, ranchers and timber operators who produce agricultural and timber products for sale will need a special registration number to claim sales tax exemption on purchased taxable products used for their operations beginning Jan. 1. The registration number was made a requirement by House Bill 268, [...]
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