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Controlling weeds in wheat is difficult but not impossible
From Southwest Farm Press Controlling weeds in wheat may never have been particularly easy, but increasing pressure from herbicide-resistant weeds makes the chore a bit more complicated. But it’s not...
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Texas officials discuss control for feral swine
From Southwest Farm Press When Chris Columbus loaded up a dozen swine to make the trip across the Atlantic to the New World for the first time in 1492, little did he know it marked the beginning of...
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Sugarcane aphid is manageable but costly
In Southwest Farm Press By Robert Burns, Texas AgriLife The sugarcane aphid is likely here to stay in South Texas and the rest of the state. It’s a manageable pest but adds one more threat and more...
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Texas quarantine changes: fruit fly lifted, HLB expanded
From Southwest Farm Press As research continues to ramp up in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (USDA-APHIS) nationwide efforts to fight the spread of Huanglongbing (HLB), or Citrus...
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Weather, management will determine extent of resistant weed problem next year
In Southwest Farm Press Roundup-resistant Palmer amaranth has been bad in the Texas High Plains and Rolling Plains this year. And it could be worse in 2015. Weather will play a role, say weed...
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Texas IPM agent’s boots will be hard to fill
In the Southwest Farm Press blog by Ron Smith In my first year or two in my first job as a journalist, someone, probably my boss, offered me two pieces of advice. One: “Someone else would do your job...
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Early disease and nematode control key to crop management
In Southwest Farm Press Jason Woodward covered a lot of ground in a short time — in less than an hour he touched on several cotton disease issues, discussed new options for controlling nematodes and...
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