Updated Wireworm Management in Texas High Plains Cotton

 Check out our latest Texas cotton pest publication, the updated Wireworm Management in Cotton: Https://lubbock.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/12/2025-wireworm-fact-sheet_small-size.pdf

Mid-Plains Ag Expo Set for January 22, 2026

 Hope to see you there!

 

Weekly IPM Update Text Message Sign Up

 

If you are not signed up for our in-season weekly Texas High Plains IPM Updates, or any of the other regions across Texas, here is the QR code to sign up.  You will get text updates about pest and crop status weekly from the IPM Team along with scouting tips and potential solution recommendations.  Texas IPM will also continue the Corn Leafhopper updates for 2026 and will be starting a new update for the invasive Cotton Jassid.  For updates on these specific new pests, text to 833-717-0325 corn for the corn leafhopper and cotton for the jassid updates.

 

If you have an I-phone, you may want to add these to your contact list to ensure text message delivery of the information.  

 

Mid Plains Field Day Set

Come see us September 29!

 

Cotton Jassid (invasive new cotton pest) Alert for 2026

We have another new pest to watch for next year. we need to take this one seriously too. The Cotton Jassid:

https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/update-on-cotton-jassid/  

High Plains IPM Update, September 10, 2025

 As the season starts to wind down, we still need eyes in the field and grower participation.  Here the link to this week’s update: https://on.soundcloud.com/FxZWsFKTowhwhs0XYy

2025 Plains Pest Management Survey

 Greetings everyone,  

Here is a link to a survey for the Hale, Swisher, & Floyd IPM Unit.  This survey will evaluate the overall IPM Program.  So, please let us quantify how we are doing with these updates by answering these 7 questions: https://agrilife.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2tNrmu8pgIc8TOe

 

Thank you! 

Plains Pest Management News September 5, 2025

Crops advancing into September as pest ease.  Here is this week’s Plains Pest Management News.

 

https://hale.agrilife.org/files/2025/09/September-5-2025.pdf