South Plains Scout School - May 25, 2017

Everyone is invited to join us for the South Plains Field Scout School on Thursday, May 25, 2017 in Lubbock.  If you or your workers need an introduction and basic understanding of field scouting cotton, corn, sorghum, or peanuts for insect or disease, this is the place to get the training!  Please see the agenda below. 

 

 

Blayne Reed

 

South High Plains Scout School

Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center

1102 E. FM 1294, Lubbock, TX 79403

May 25, 2017

For crop consultant workers, farmers and their workers, County Extension agents and their interns, and any agricultural related worker - Three CEU’s will be offered

 

8:0 – 8:30 am Registration (free)

   Cotton  

   8:30 - 9:00 am Agronomy & Plant Mapping – Seth Byrd

9:00 – 9:30 am Insect Pests & Scouting – Suhas Vyavhare, Blayne Reed

9:30 – 10:00 am Hands on Cotton Plant Mapping – Blayne Reed,

   Suhas Vyavhare

Corn & Grain Sorghum 

  10:00 – 10:30 am Agronomy - Calvin Trostle
  10:30 – 11:15 am Insect Pests - Pat Porter

11:15 – 11:30 am Beneficial Insects –Katelyn Kesheimer/Suhas Vyavhare

   11:30 – 12:00 Peanut Insects and Diseases – Tyler Mays

  
   Contact Rae Cox, (806) 746 – 6101 rmcox@ag.tamu.edu to RSVP by May 23, 2017.

 

Educational programs by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service serve people of all ages regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, religion, sex, disability or national origin.

The Texas A&M System, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the County Commissioners Courts of Texas Cooperating.