{"id":1252,"date":"2018-02-14T17:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2018-05-30T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T18:58:49","slug":"sesame-for-texas-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/2018\/02\/14\/sesame-for-texas-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Sesame for Texas in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Dept. of Soil &amp; Crop Sciences, Lubbock, 806-746-6101, <a href=\"mailto:ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu\">ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sesame is a heat-tolerant, drought-tolerant crop that has a good fit in much of Texas\u2019 drier regions. \u00a0It is grown in the Rolling Plains, South Plains, Concho Valley, Texas Wintergarden, Coastal Bend, and Lower Rio Grande Valley.\u00a0 Limitations to the Norwest include cooler temperatures associated with elevation &gt; 4,000\u2019, and in North &amp; Central Texas, as one approaches I-35 from the west the tendency for greater disease issues increase due to higher humidity and rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its small seed size it may present a planting challenge for some farmers.\u00a0 The right planter plates\/discs and proper settings alleviate this).\u00a0 Also, few registered herbicides exist for sesame.\u00a0 Labels include Sonalan, some grass herbicides for mid-season control, and Dual products via an indemnified label (farmers take the risk of injury).\u00a0 Thus, sesame is not for your weedy ground.<\/p>\n<p>Sesame has crop rotation advantages, wild hogs largely seem to leave it alone, it is suppressive of root knot nematode, and there are at least 17 Texas counties where program crop insurance is available.\u00a0 These counties include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High Plains: Gaines, Dawson, Terry, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Lamb, Hale, Floyd, Castro, Swisher<\/li>\n<li>Rolling Plains: Childress(?), Hardeman, Haskell, Jones, Wilbarger, Wichita<\/li>\n<li>I am currently unaware of any county program crop insurance coverage in South Texas.<\/li>\n<li>Several southwest Oklahoma counties as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AgriLife Extension has prepared a summary of sesame production practices, primarily for the Texas Rolling &amp; High Plains, posted online at <a href=\"http:\/\/lubbock.tamu.edu\/sesame\/\">http:\/\/lubbock.tamu.edu\/sesame\/<\/a>\u00a0 Brief information is also included for South Texas.\u00a0 Contractor information and contacts (Sesaco, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesaco.com\">http:\/\/www.sesaco.com<\/a>, recent pricing $0.35\/lb, irrigated or dryland), and basic agronomic practices are discussed, and links are provided to further contractor production and harvest resources.\u00a0 Last recommended planting dates extend to late June in the High Plains and early July in the Rolling Plains though earlier planting there appears advantageous.\u00a0 In case you heard, there is a second contractor\/processor entering the Texas sesame market in 2018, but they do not anticipate publicly advertising contracts in 2018 but will instead focus on their existing growers in this start-up year.<\/p>\n<p>Sesaco indicates that up to 100,000 acres are available for contracting.\u00a0 New for 2018 Sesaco has announced that all sesame in Texas can now use a harvest aid (glyphosate) as the standards on glyphosate tolerances in key export markets, particularly Japan, have been relaxed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1253\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/1Early-August-Sesame-Rolling-Plains-WBell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1253\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/1Early-August-Sesame-Rolling-Plains-WBell-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/1Early-August-Sesame-Rolling-Plains-WBell-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/1Early-August-Sesame-Rolling-Plains-WBell-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/1Early-August-Sesame-Rolling-Plains-WBell.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 1. Early August sesame in the northern Rolling Plains is flowering after a planting in late June. (Courtesy Whitney Bell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1254\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/2Sesame-Dried-for-Harvest-Rolling-Plains-WBell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1254\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1254\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/2Sesame-Dried-for-Harvest-Rolling-Plains-WBell-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/2Sesame-Dried-for-Harvest-Rolling-Plains-WBell-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/2Sesame-Dried-for-Harvest-Rolling-Plains-WBell-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2018\/02\/2Sesame-Dried-for-Harvest-Rolling-Plains-WBell-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig. 2. Dry sesame ready for harvest in late October, northern Rolling Plains. (Courtesy Whitney Bell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_137\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2015\/03\/Trostle-Pic-2014-e1435930962627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137\" src=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2015\/03\/Trostle-Pic-2014-e1435930962627-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2015\/03\/Trostle-Pic-2014-e1435930962627-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2015\/03\/Trostle-Pic-2014-e1435930962627-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/files\/2015\/03\/Trostle-Pic-2014-e1435930962627.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Trostle<br \/>Professor and Extension Specialist<br \/>Lubbock, TX<br \/>803.746.6101<br \/><a href=\"mailto:ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu\">ctrostle@ag.tamu.edu<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dr. Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Dept. of Soil &amp; 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\u2019 drier regions. \u00a0It is grown in the Rolling Plains, South Plains, Concho Valley, Texas Wintergarden, Coastal Bend, and Lower Rio Grande Valley.\u00a0 Limitations to the Norwest include cooler temperatures associated with elevation &gt; 4,000\u2019, and in North &amp; Central Texas, as one approaches I-35 from the west the tendency for greater disease issues increase due to higher&#8230; <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/2018\/02\/14\/sesame-for-texas-in-2018\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,16,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46","category-archive","category-february-2018"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sesame for Texas in 2018 - Texas Row Crops Newsletter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agrilife.org\/texasrowcrops\/2018\/02\/14\/sesame-for-texas-in-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sesame for Texas in 2018 - Texas Row Crops Newsletter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"by Dr. Calvin Trostle, Extension Agronomy, TAMU Dept. of Soil &amp; 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\u2019 drier regions. \u00a0It is grown in the Rolling Plains, South Plains, Concho Valley, Texas Wintergarden, Coastal Bend, and Lower Rio Grande Valley.\u00a0 Limitations to the Norwest include cooler temperatures associated with elevation &gt; 4,000\u2019, and in North &amp; Central Texas, as one approaches I-35 from the west the tendency for greater disease issues increase due to higher... 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