The Southwest Cotton Physiology Conference will be held Feb. 10-12 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock, 1102 E. Farm-to-Market Road 1294. The event is hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife, Kansas State University and Oklahoma State University.
The Southwest Cotton Physiology Conference will be in Lubbock on Feb. 10-12 and feature speakers from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)
The program will begin at 1 p.m. Feb. 10 and continue all day on Feb. 11 and again until noon on Feb. 12.
The fee is $20, and registration is available online.
There will be eight and a half Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units and Certified Crop Advisers units in the following categories: two pest management, four crop management, one and a half in soil and water management, and one nutrient management.
On the agenda
The program will have the following topics and speakers on Feb. 10:
Pathology and nematode update – Terry Wheeler, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research plant pathologist and professor, Lubbock, and Tom Isakeit Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service plant pathologist and professor, Bryan-College Station, all in the Texas A&M Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology; and Maira Duffeck, Ph.D., assistant professor, entomology and plant pathology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
Variety performance and stability – Ben McKnight, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension statewide cotton specialist and assistant professor, Bryan-College Station; Ken Legé, Ph.D., cotton specialist and assistant professor, Lubbock; and Emi Kimura, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension statewide peanut specialist, agronomist and associate professor, all in the Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences; and Logan Simon, Ph.D., southwest area agronomist, Kansas State University, Garden City, Kansas.
Cotton jassid and other insect control update – Suhas Vyavhare, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension entomologist and assistant professor, Texas A&M Department of Entomology.
The program on Feb. 11 will include:
Strategies to make cotton profitable I: Seeding rates and row spacing – Rebekah Pustejovsky, AgriLife Extension assistant and doctoral student at Texas Tech University; Oscar Fernandes Montero, graduate research assistant at Texas A&M University; Reagan Noland, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist and associate professor, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, San Angelo; Kimura and McKnight.
Physiology, growth and development I: Maturity and target development curve – Craig Bednarz, Ph.D., AgriLife Research crop physiologist and director of the Semi-Arid Agricultural Systems Institute and associate professor, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, and Brenna Cannon, doctoral candidate, Oklahoma State University.
Testing ag performance solutions, TAPS: Opportunities in the southwest – Hope Nakabuye, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer and assistant professor, Lubbock; and Sumit Sharma, Ph.D., Extension irrigation management specialist, Oklahoma State University, Goodwell, Oklahoma.
Precision ag/irrigation technology I: Fertility and irrigation strategies, Katie Lewis, Ph.D., AgriLife Research soil scientist and professor with Texas A&M and Texas Tech University, Lubbock; and Brian Arnall, Ph.D., precision nutrient management Extension specialist, Oklahoma State University.
Physiology, growth and development II: Seed size, stand uniformity and fiber quality – Reagan Heinrich, AgriLife Research research associate, Lubbock; Riley Siders, AgriLife Extension assistant and Texas Tech University graduate student; and Jonathon Salgado, AgriLife Extension student worker and graduate student, Texas Tech.
Precision ag/irrigation technology II: Irrigation automation, irrigation timing – Wenxuan Guo, Ph.D., AgriLife Research ecophysiologist and associate professor, Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and Texas Tech University; Jonathan Aguilar, Ph.D., professor, Kansas State University.
Plains Cotton Growers update, Mark Brown, director of field services, Plains Cotton Growers, Lubbock.
The Cotton Board update, Shelley Heinrich, southern plains regional communications manager, The Cotton Board, Slaton.
Ag retail panel discussion, with representatives from several regional retailers.
On the agenda for Feb. 12 are:
Strategies to make cotton profitable II: Conventional systems, extra-long staple systems and northern geography strategies – Jenny Dudak, Ph.D., plant and soil sciences assistant professor and Extension cotton specialist, Oklahoma State University; Legé and Simon.
Precision ag/irrigation technology III: Targeted pesticide application technologies – Sarah Lancaster, Ph.D., assistant professor and Extension specialist, Kansas State University.
Organic cotton production – Bob Whitney, AgriLife Extension organic program specialist and Regents Fellow, Department of Agricultural Economics, Stephenville.
Novel uses for cotton – Noureddine Abidi, Ph.D., managing director of the Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
For more information, contact McKnight at 225-454-0435, [email protected]; Legé, 806-201-4775, [email protected]; Simon, 620-276-8286, [email protected]; or Dudak, 563-608-6112, [email protected].
