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:

• Cotton harvest aid scouting
• Making cotton yield estimates
• Late-season cotton aphid scouting to prevent sticky cotton
• Determining the last harvestable boll in cotton, its realistic needs and irrigation termination
• Managing cotton regrowth
• Measuring late sorghum/corn needs
• Late-season sugarcane aphid scouting in sorghum
• Sorghum harvest aid scouting

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.