Category Archives: February 2018
Texas Wheat Disease Update
by Dr. Clark Neely, Statewide Small Grains Extension Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Dr. Emi Kimura, Regional Extension Agronomist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Dr. Tom Isakeit, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension For wheat growers in a good chunk of the state, we are finally getting some beneficial rain (unfortunately this does not include the Panhandle). This is good news with more and more of the state slipping into exceptionally dry or drought conditions this winter. However, with spring rains sometimes comes rust pressure in wheat… Read More →
“Nitrogen and Texas Wheat Grain Production—Topdress N Timing is Critical”
by Dr. Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Dept. of Soil & Crop Sciences, Lubbock, 806-746-6101, ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu; Dr. Jake Mowrer, Extension Soil Fertility, TAMU Dept. of Soil & Crop Sciences, College Station, 979-845.5366, jake.mowrer@tamu.edu Soil & Crop Sciences extension has developed a new publication for Texas wheat. Nitrogen topdress timing involves recognizing the key jointing growth stage in wheat, and understanding when conditions may merit earlier application of topdress N. Much of the discussion in the new document is presented in the context of twelve common grower questions about… Read More →
2017 Texas A&M AgriLife Bushland Forage Sorghum Silage Trial
by Jourdan Bell, Jourdan.bell@ag.tamu.edu Ed Bynum, EBynum@ag.tamu.edu Ted McCollum, Ted.McCollum@ag.tamu.edu Ronnie Schnell, ronschnell@tamu.edu The 2017 Texas A&M AgriLife Bushland forage sorghum silage trial consisted of 78 entries including forage sorghum, sorghum-sudangrass, sudangrass, and grain sorghum hybrids under center pivot irrigation. Two corn hybrids were included for comparative purposes. Due to declining well capacities across the Texas High Plains, forage sorghums are a drought tolerant option to meet the increasing silage demands of both the beef feedlot and dairy industries. The large scale of the Bushland trial provides producers… Read More →
Sesame for Texas in 2018
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 →
Texas auxin-specific training receives reciprocity with Oklahoma and New Mexico
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 →
2017 High Plains RACE Trial Results Now Available
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 →