by Dr. Clark Neely, Statewide Small Grains and Oilseed Extension Specialist, College Station, TX Dr. Jake Mowrer, Statewide Soil Fertility Specialist, College Station, TX Dr. Emi Kimura, Regional Extension Agronomist, Vernon, TX Dr. Dennis Coker, Soil Fertility Program Specialist, College Station, TX Russell Sutton, Assistant Research Scientist, Commerce, TX Daniel Hathcoat, Small Grains Program Specialist, College Station One of the foremost questions on many wheat producers’ minds this year is “Will I make any money on wheat?” While it is true wheat prices are down and many budgets… Read More →

by Tony Provin, Professor and Extension Soil Chemist and Ronnie Schnell, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist-Cropping Systems ronschnell@tamu.edu The era of remote sensing, aerial drones, satellite imaging and GPS/GIS has most producers focusing on the visible issues present in their fields.  The Soil Health movement is attempting to increase the awareness of the functions of soil and how to enhance or maintain our nation’s most critical natural resource.  Whether it’s Texas or the central corn-belt, the root of most problems (pun intended) is actually roots, or lack of. … Read More →

by Thomas Isakeit, Professor and Extension Plant Pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station; Jourdan Bell, Assistant Professor and Agronomist, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Amarillo; Ted McCollum III, Professor and Extension Beef Cattle Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Amarillo Fumonisins are toxins produced in corn kernels by two species of fungi (Fusarium verticillioides and F. proliferatum).  These toxins are carcinogens and can cause illness in livestock, particularly in horses. The levels of fumonisin allowed in food and… Read More →

by Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, Lubbock, (806) 723-8432, ctrostle@ag.tamu.ed Katrina Horn, Crop Testing Program director, (806) 845-8505, khorn@tamu.edu Ron Schnell, Cropping Systems Extension Agronomy, College Station, (979) 845-2935, ronschnell@tamu.edu A unit of Texas A&M AgriLife is the Crop Testing Program, http://varietytesting.tamu.edu/, which has been functioning for over 40 years.  The program offers fee-based public testing of corn, grain sorghum, and sunflower hybrids and one large forage sorghum silage trial.  The above webpage also publishes data from other AgriLife crop trials conducted outside the auspices of the Crop Testing… Read More →