Cold wet weather dampens state farm activities
In College Station Texas freezing temperatures early in the week damaged fruit and pecan trees in western areas and hail damaged some vegetable crops in the Winter Garden. Corn and grain sorghum crops are up to good stands over most of South and Southwest Texas, though rootworms damaged some plantings requiring replanting as planting progress nears completion.
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College Station
Tex
John Hutchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas
Hutchison
East
Panhandle
South Plains
Sul Ross biologist wins NSF Sunflower research grant
Dr. Michael Powell of Sul Ross College biology faculty receives a $21,300 NSF two year grant to study Flaveria species in the sunflower family. The project includes fieldwork from Texas to Colorado and into Mexico and aims to uncover plant growth adaptations in saline soils. Powell, a 10 year faculty member, holds a PhD in botany from the University of Texas and has prior NSF grant history and about 40 related papers.
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Alpine
Tex
Michael Powell
Sul Ross
National Science Foundation
Southwest
Mexico
NSF
Powell
United States
South America
Africa
Australia
Texas
Colorado
Florida
Oaxaca
Miles grandson leads Far West rodent control program
Robert W. Miles of El Paso, grandson of W.O. Miles, heads Urban Rodent Control Specialists in Far-West Texas. The program, a cooperative effort of the Texas A&M Extension Service and the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, educates on ecological rodent control and assists lower income areas while not competing with commercial pest firms.
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Pecos
Texas Rodent and
Texas
Robert W
Bob
Miles
el Paso
W.O
Buster
Marfa
Alpine
Fort Davis
Ysleta High School
University of Texas At
Robert, Jr
Odessa
Dallas
Fort Worth
Abilene
Waco
Wichita Falls
San Antonio
Houston
Robstown
Beaumont
Austin
Tyler
Angus Dickson, Jr
U.S
Cotton prices rise on limited sales across Western regions
Spot cotton prices climbed with limited volume as demand stayed firm for old and new crop. Old crop supplies were tight while planting progressed in California’s El Centro and Kern County amid cool to warm weather shifts. Quarantines for cattle due to scabies were lifted in seven Texas counties but remain in others and across neighboring states.
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Agricultural Marketing Service
USDA
el Centro
California
Kern County
San Joaquin Valley
Arizona
Fresno
Washington
Texas
Agriculture Department
Armstrong
Collingsworth
Donley
Hemphill
Lipscomb
Roberts
Wheeler
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
Idaho
Boll weevil remains cotton's No. 1 enemy
Agriculture Commissioner John C. White states the boll weevil remains the top threat to cotton. Texas uses chemical, cultural, and biological controls with a diapause program to time applications and reduce pesticide use. Clean-up, stalk destruction, and herbicide practices are emphasized to curb losses alongside efforts against pink bollworm.
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Austin
Agriculture
John C. White
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Association of Cotton Producers Organizations
Havest
South
Texas
Commissioner White
Fertilizer deal totals eight billion with Soviet Union
Soviet officials and Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum signed an eight billion chemical fertilizer contract to be fulfilled over 20 years. The barter agreement funds four ammonia and urea plants near Kuibyshev, with production in kind payments of superphosphates and potash.
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Moscow
Armand Hammer
Occidental Petroleum Corp
Soviet Union
Occidental
Bechtel Corp
Phates
Hammer
Tass
Kuibyshev
Facts About Texas Grain-Fed Beef brochure released
A new brochure from the Texas Department of Agriculture and the Texas Cattle Feeders Association explains six basic methods to cook beef. It also covers care and storage of fresh beef and freezing and defrosting tips.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Cattle Feeders Association
Texas Agriculture
John C. White
Geologists Study Formation of Marathon Basin in Texas
Geologists Dr. David Hanselman and Dr. Romeo Flores of Sul Ross State University conduct fieldwork and lab analyses near Marathon to determine how the Marathon Basin in Brewster County formed. They compare shallow water dolomite indicators with deeper water limestone to test sedimentary histories and potential oil implications in the Ellenberger and Marathon formations.
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David Hanselman
Romeo Flores
Sul Ross State University
Brewster County
Texas
Coastal Plain
Hanselman
Austin People
University of Texas Geologists
Marathon
Austin
Catto-Gage Ranch
Alsate Creek
Sul Ross
Ellenberger
Hanselman and Flores
Farm parity report shows six commodities above parity
A government scorecard notes overall parity at 82 percent with agriculture 18 percent below par. Hog, beef cattle, calves, sheep, wool, and mohair stay above parity while lambs and oats dip below. Cotton and grains remain well under parity. Texas data list hogs, calves, and lambs above parity with sheep and lambs on feed rising.
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Texas
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Cotton Incorporated Board of Directors
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Linton
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Durant
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Milan
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Tohoka
Sherman Thomas
Madera
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Mayesville
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Stamford
Geological Society of America
Little Rock
Arkansas
Flores
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Marathon Basin
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Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
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