Texas, USA
January 15, 2025

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the 2nd annual Winter Garden Row Crop Conference on Jan. 27 in Hondo.
 

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the 2nd annual Winter Garden Row Crop Conference on Jan. 27 in Hondo. (Laura McKenzie/Texas A&M AgriLife)
 

The conference is sponsored by the AgriLife Extension offices in Atascosa, Dimmit, Frio, Guadalupe, Medina, Uvalde, Wilson and Zavala counties. It serves as a kick-off to the corn, cotton and sorghum growing season in the Winter Garden. 

The event begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. and will conclude at 4:20 p.m. at the Hermann Sons Life Hall, 251 Texas Highway 173. Registration is $30, which includes lunch. To RSVP, contact the AgriLife Extension office in Medina County at 830-741-6180. The deadline to RSVP is Jan. 24.

Five Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units will be available — one general, one laws and regulations, and three integrated pest management. 

Speakers and topics

• Applicator laws and regulations, Mark Matocha, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension environmental unit pesticide safety education specialist, Agricultural and Environmental Safety Unit, Bryan-College Station.
• Herbicide-resistant weeds, Josh McGinty, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist and assistant professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Corpus Christi.
• Row-crop diseases, Tom Isakeit, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension plant pathologist and professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Bryan-College Station.
• Crop marketing and risk management Department of Agricultural Economics panel: Mark Welch, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist for grain marketing and professor, Bryan-College Station; John Robinson, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension cotton marketing economist and professor, Bryan-College Station; Yuri Calil, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist and assistant professor, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Corpus Christi.
• Pesticide modes of action, Matocha.
• Insect pest management in row crops, Noel Troxclair, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agriculture and natural resources agent, Uvalde. 

Website: http://agrilife.org/

Published: January 16, 2025