Meetings Will Focus on Spring Forages, Insect Scouting

Writer: Tim W. McAlavy, (806) 746-6101, email: t-mcalavy@tamu.edu

LUBBOCK – Two Texas Cooperative Extension meetings slated in late May will provide producers with the latest information spring forages, and an opportunity to hone their insect identification and field scouting skills.

The Oat Variety and Forage Quality Turnrow Meeting is slated on May 30, beginning at 9 a.m. Those who attend will
visit an oat variety field trial comparing 13 different varieties for spring forage potential and grain production.

Calvin Trostle, Extension agronomist based at Lubbock, will host this meeting. He will discuss small grain management strategies (including spring oats) that can help producers boost forage quality and production. Texas A&M’s Research
and Extension Center at Lubbock will host this meeting.

To reach the Center, take exit 11 (FM 1294) off of Interstate Highway 27. The center is ½-mile east on 1294; the oat variety trials are approximately ¼-mile east, on the south side of FM 1294.

Participants can also earn one continuing education unit (CEU). For more information, contact Trostle at (806) 746-6101.

Extension’s annual High Plains Crop Pest Scouting Workshop will take place May 31, from 8 a.m. to about 4:35 p.m.,
at the Ollie Liner Center in Plainview.

Extension specialists, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) agents and Texas Department of Agriculture personnel will
cover topics such as: cotton growth and development; common cotton pests; beneficial insects; worker protection standards; sorghum and corn growth and development; common sorghum/corn pests; sunflower and soybean pests;
weed identification and herbicide injury; and recognizing diseases common in cotton, corn and grain sorghum.

Participants can earn five continuing education units (CEU’s) at this event. For more information on the pest scouting workshop, contact the Texas Cooperative Extension office in Hale County at (806) 291-5267.