Plains Pest Management Series

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices of Hale and Swisher counties have a series of six scout training days scheduled from June through September. The hands-on training days will target specific field scouting subjects, agronomic stages, pests and pest management.

Topics include:

• Lygus and other plant bug scouting in cotton
• Calculating nodes above white flower, or NAWF, in cotton
• Conducting whole plant inspections and calculating fruit loss on blooming cotton plants
• Proper drop cloth use
• Early bollworm and secondary cotton pest scouting
• Herbicide damage ID in cotton/corn/sorghum/weeds
• Calculating fruit loss on blooming cotton
• Scouting corn for economic pests
• Corn reproductive stages and spotting details to help in managing corn during pollination
• Early aphid scouting in sorghum
• Key beneficial ID

Each training is free for AgriLife Extension agents and specialists and $75 per training for the general public. 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.