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Winter wheat, oat program set May 5 in Thrall

published: April 25th 2022
by: Susan Himes
source: Texas AgriLife Today

The Winter Cereals Field Day will take place May 5 at the Stiles Farm Foundation Headquarters, 5700 Farm-to-Market Road 1063, Thrall.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service event will run from 9 a.m.-noon. The cost is $10, and lunch is provided courtesy of Texas Farm Bureau – Williamson County. Preregistration is required at https://tx.ag/WinterCerealsFD.

Two Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units are available, one general and one integrated pest management.

Winter Cereals Field Day topics, speakers

The event will feature Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension specialists from Bryan-College Station who will discuss the new developments being made for winter wheat, and the research and field trials going on at Stiles Farm.

Winter Cereals Field Day topics include:

• New winter wheat varieties.
• New winter oat variety development.
• Diseases and insect pests in winter wheat.
• New fungicides for the control of rusts and scab in winter wheat.

For more information about this event, contact Gary Pastushok, AgriLife Extension agriculture and natural resources agent for Williamson County, at gary.pastushok@ag.tamu.edu, or call the county office at 512-943-3300.

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