Crop Production and Risk Protection Workshop Slated for Dec. 18

By Tim Schnettler

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host a Crop Production and Risk Protection workshop for all Panhandle and South Plains counties on Dec. 18.

The workshop will be offered both in person and virtually, with in-person meetings being held throughout the two districts. For costs and to register, contact your local AgriLife Extension office. 

Speakers and topics

• Know your pesticide laws and regulations — Cheryl Goswick, assistant director for pesticides, Texas Department of Agriculture, Amarillo.
• Weed management decisions — Peter Dotray, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research agronomist and professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Lubbock.
• Update on cotton, corn and sorghum insect pests — David Kerns, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension entomologist, statewide integrated pest management coordinator and associate department head, Department of Entomology, Bryan-College Station.
• Cotton insects ­— Suhas Vyavhare, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension entomologist and associate professor, Department of Entomology, Lubbock. 
• Southwestern corn borer potential issues — Pat Porter, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension entomologist and professor, Department of Entomology, Lubbock. 
• Options for controlling woody species on rangeland — chemical, mechanical and burning, and new research/projects on managing control and monitoring grazing — Morgan Treadwell, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension range specialist and professor, Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, San Angelo. 
• Management and use of pesticides following wildfires — Treadwell.
• Cotton preplant decisions and management, variety decisions, populations studies, row spacings, seed quality and treatments — Ken Lege, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension cotton specialist and assistant professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Lubbock.
• Matching available water to planted acreage and crop selection, plant-soil-water relationships — Jourdan Bell, Ph.D. AgriLife Extension agronomist and associate professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Amarillo.
• Discussion and updates on diseases and viruses in panhandle crops — Ken Obasa, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension pathologist and assistant professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Amarillo.