Category Archives: August 2017
Cotton Growth Stages – Cutout
by Seth Byrd, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Lubbock, TX; 806.746.6101, seth.byrd@tamu.edu and Wayne Keeling, Professor, Agronomy Systems Weed Science, Lubbock, TX., 806-742-4026, w-keeling@tamu.edu. What it is and why it’s important. Cutout and blooming out the top are often confused as the same growth stage. At cutout there are still many potential fruiting sites to be developed, and the timing of cutout is often used as a gauge of the fruiting window and yield potential. Blooming out the top signals the end of… Read More →
Wheat Variety Grain Picks for the Texas High Plains—2017-2018
by Dr. Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Soil & Crop Sciences, Lubbock, (806) 723-8432, ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu Dr. Jourdan Bell, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Soil & Crop Sciences, Amarillo, (806) 677-5600, jourdan.bell@ag.tamu.edu Texas A&M AgriLife Staff in Amarillo and Lubbock have designated our annual wheat grain variety “Picks” for the 2017-2018 Texas High Plains cropping season. Our ongoing Picks criteria include a minimum of three years of irrigated or dryland data in Texas A&M AgriLife High Plains wheat variety trials across numerous annual locations. Also, a “Pick” variety means this: “Given… Read More →