by Dr. Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Dept. of Soil & Crop Sciences, Lubbock, 806-746-6101, ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu Sesame is a heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant crop that has a good fit in much of Texas’ drier regions.  It is grown in the Rolling Plains, South Plains, Concho Valley, Texas Wintergarden, Coastal Bend, and Lower Rio Grande Valley.  Limitations to the Norwest include cooler temperatures associated with elevation > 4,000’, and in North & Central Texas, as one approaches I-35 from the west the tendency for greater disease issues increase due to higher… Read More →

by Scott Nolte, scott.nolte@tamu.edu and Mark Matocha, mmatocha@ag.tamu.edu The Texas Department of Agriculture approved auxin-specific herbicide training, developed by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Allied Industry, has been reciprocally approved by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the New Mexico Department of Agriculture. In the fall of 2017, the U.S. EPA revised the labels for the three dicamba products, (Engenia, FeXapan, and XtendiMax), approved for use on dicamba tolerant soybean and cotton varieties.  One of the label changes included a mandate that anyone (applicators… Read More →

by Seth Byrd, seth.byrd@ag.tamu.edu and Jourdan Bell, jourdan.bell@ag.tamu.edu The results of the 2017 Replicated Agronomic Cotton Evaluations (or RACE) Trials for the High Plains are now available at Cotton.tamu.edu.  These trials encompass both the Northern and Southern High Plains regions and provide growers with information critical to cotton production in these regions, including yield, fiber quality, and maturity measurements. The results are divided into two sections, with section one consisting of the pooled data and individual results of the 13 trials in the Southern High Plains, while section… Read More →