Scout TRAINING Days June-Sept 2020 Announcement

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices of Hale and Swisher counties have a series of Scout Training Days beginning MONDAY, June 22^nd and continuing every other week through September, 2020.

This Monday’s Training will target:

• Fleahopper and other plant bug scouting techniques
• Conducting whole plant cotton inspections
• Cotton square ID, mapping and calculating fruit retention/drop
• Corn and sorghum early season scouting review
• Corn rootworm lookout, and common lep larva ID and current events
• Key beneficial ID

Trainings will begin at 9 a.m. at the Halfway Experiment Station in Hale County, 823 W. U.S. Highway 70, Plainview, and conclude around noon. Spots will be limited to five per date, so RSVP promptly by phone to 806-291-5267 or email to blayne.reed@ag.tamu.edu.

The trainings are free for AgriLife Extension agents and specialists and $75 per training for the general public.  Payment for trainings will be due at the time of service.  Checks should be made to Texas Pest Management Association and invoice copies are available upon request.  

These Training Days are hands-on training sessions for early career agriculturalists and those who will be making or influencing decisions about pests and agronomic inputs.  You will learn how to gather field data using scientific trial-proven methods. You will gain skills on how to gather the right data to make economic decisions about agricultural production and inputs. These are vanishing skills – with few practical places to learn them for newcomers to the field.

Attendees will go out in the field and learn alongside Blayne Reed, AgriLife’s Integrated Pest Management Agent for Hale and Swisher counties.  Each field scouting day will have a different focus and you can attend whichever topics are most relevant to your needs.  Each date is relevant to the crops and pests found in the fields during this growing season. Watch for the next  TRAINING DAY Announcement here at Plains Pest Bugosphere and Plains Pest Management Facebook Page 

 

NOTE:  Social distancing and facial covering must be maintained as Advised by State and Local Health Authorities due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Since training dates are subject to change, depending on weather and other factors, leave a preferred contact method when you RSVP.  Contact Blayne Reed for more information at 806-291-5267.