April 30, 2002 |
The harvest of wheat will soon begin. As you harvest samples from variety tests, please record the information on the foot of drill row(s) harvested and the number of inches from drill row to drill row. I will need this information to calculate the yield per acre. The thrasher is located at the Research and Extension Center at San Angelo. You may want to team up with another county to thrash samples. It takes at least two people to do the job efficiently. After the thrashing of grain is complete, the grain weights can then be entered into a spreadsheet and the information you want determined. Also, at the time of harvest you may want to get the production information from your demonstration cooperator.
The weed control test conducted in Reagan County provided useful information to producers and chemical companies across several Extension districts. Linked is a final copy of the report (http://sanangelo.tamu.edu/agronomy/newsltr/weed02a.htm). Don't forget to tour the plot...the underlined texted in Table 2 are active links to pictures taken on the day of evaluation (you are standing in the center of a four row test plot).
During April I made several presentations where I passed out information on forage. Reference materials included:
Shown are nine weeds that are developing in cropland and barditches at this time.
On the second Monday of every month, Taylor County Extension Office conducts a private applicators training and testing. If you have producers that need to attend they should contact Gary Bomar at (915) 672-6048.
The annual cotton insect scout school will be held June 3, 2002 at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center at San Angelo. If you would like to travel to south Texas to fine-tune your scouting skills, please contact Rick Minzenmayer at (915) 365-5212.
Sincerely,
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