2000 ANNUAL REPORT
AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX

FOR

ADVANCED RESEARCH

AND

EXTENSION SYSTEMS
(AG-CARES)
AND OTHER

DAWSON COUNTY

AGRICULTURAL PROGRAMS

IN COOPERATION WITH
LAMESA COTTON GROWERS

TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE

TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

The Agriculture Program

THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Lubbock

Route 3, Box 219

Lubbock, TX 79403-9803

This report for AG-CARES marks the eleventh year of a partnership between Lamesa Cotton Growers, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Those working in the Agriculture Program of the Texas A&M System on the Southern High Plains continue to rely on this location as a premier site to develop, demonstrate, and deliver agricultural technology and information to producers in this area.
Profitable and sustainable farming systems for the area continues to receive the major emphasis at AG-CARES. Long term results under the varied weather conditions experienced in the region continue to be compiled for your reference. Conservation tillage methods for wind protection are compared with conventional tillage programs. Water conservation continues to be a major focus of programs for all crops. The use of LEPA irrigation techniques on peanuts was demonstrated as a viable alternate to spray irrigation at this site. Precision Agriculture (site specific farming) studies have been underway for three years. Our scientists, like their counterparts across the U.S., are finding that accurate and dependable information is very time consuming and expensive to collect and that data is complex and difficult to interpret due to the large number of factors being studied. Results to date have not yielded any practices to be recommended for adoption by producers.
AG-CARES continues to allow us to leverage funds provided by producers groups, commodities, state agencies, and industries to meet and address agricultural needs of producers in the area. Major funding sources include Lamesa Cotton Growers, Texas State Support Committee for Cotton, Cotton Incorporated, Texas Peanut Producers Board, Monsanto, and several businesses in Lamesa. Our federal, state and county elected officials continue to provide strong support for the success of AG-CARES.
Strong leadership and direction for our programs are provided by Travis Mires and George Hardberger (Lamesa Cotton Growers), Dr. Randy Boman and John Farris (TAEX), and Drs. Wayne Keeling and Mike Schubert (TAES). Danny Carmichael serves as the site manager. We are indebted to all those mentioned above as well as the many staff members of the Lubbock Research and Extension Center and the Dawson County Office who provided support at this site.

 

Jaroy Moore Jett Major
Resident Director of Research District Director

• Lamesa Cotton Growers, Inc. Officers, Directors, and Member Gins
• Agricultural Research and Extension Personnel

• Testing of Precision Agriculture Technologies in Irrigated Cotton at AG-CARES, Lamesa, TX, 2000
• Use of aerial infra red photography to predict root-knot nematode density at AG-CARES, Lamesa, TX, 2000

• Weed management in Irrigated Cotton Cropping Systems Using Roundup Ultra in Roundup Ready Cotton at AG-CARES, Lamesa, TX, 2000
• Farm Enterprise Records – AG-CARES, Lamesa, TX, 2000
• Roundup Ready vs. Stacked Gene Varieties Under LEPA Irrigation, AG-CARES, Lamesa, TX, 2000
• Effect of Nematacide Treatments on Cotton Yield at AG-CARES, Lamesa, TX, 2000
• Summary of the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Insecticide Applications on the AG-CARES Farm for the Crop Year, 2000