Monthly Archives: August 2017

2017 Port Lavaca Corn Performance Trial Results

The Crop Testing Program – Texas A&M AgriLife Research has released the results from a corn hybrid performance trial conducted near Port Lavaca, TX.  Use these results along with other field trials to help you in your hybrid decision making. 2017 Corn Hybrid Results More results will be available in the coming days at this link:  http://varietytesting.tamu.edu/corn/  

Cotton Harvest Aid Meeting Monday, 8/7/17

Last Friday (7/28), we made applications to a cotton harvest aid trail off of FM 1679 in Calhoun County.  We will have a field meeting Monday (8/7) to walk through the treatments. Time:  9:00 a.m. Location: FM 1679, 1.5 miles SW of FM 2433. Since Friday’s meeting was rained out, this meeting will be Monday.

Corn and Grain Sorghum Hybrid Test Results

Below are the yield results for the 2017 Calhoun County Grain Sorghum and Corn Hybrid Tests.  These tests should be used along with other similar tests from South Texas to help determine the what to plant next year. Other hybrid test results from Texas A&M AgriLife can be found at: http://varietytesting.tamu.edu/. Both of these test had considerable amounts of variability which resulted in a lack of statistical significance.