Monday May 3
rd at the San Saba Civic Center. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. with the program beginning at 9 o’clock. There will be a $40.00 registration for those who pre-register and $60.00 at the door. An enchilada lunch will be provided by Pepperbelly’s Restaurant.
Speakers for this year’s program: Neal Alexander, San Saba County Extension Agent, Laws and Regulations; Monte Nesbitt, Extension Horticulture Specialist, College Station will discuss Pecan Integrated Pest Management; Monte will also present Pecan Pathology and will discuss Pecan Show-Show Stoppers; Colton Ploch, Graduate Assistant Extension Horticulture, Pecan Fertilization; and Stephen Janak, Extension Horticulture Specialist, Orchard Floor Management.
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For those in the pecan business, it’s time to plan for the annual Pecan Field Day on Monday, May 3, at the San Saba Civic Center, located on Thomas Stewart Drive in Mill Pond Park in San Saba. The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the San Saba County Pecan Growers Association host the field day, which includes speakers, vendors, and workshops.
Registration is at 8 a.m. The program begins at 9 a.m. You can pre-register by calling the San Saba County Extension Office at 325-372-5416 by noon Friday, April 23. Early registration is $40; at the door, the cost is $60. Pepperbelly’s Restaurant is providing an enchilada lunch.
Texas hunters ready for 2021 spring turkey season
Brownwood Bulletin
Fruitful nesting seasons in 2019 and 2020 contribute to a promising outlook for this year’s Texas spring turkey hunting season.
While the South Texas zone is already open for spring turkey season, activity across much of the state will officially begin April 3, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Wild Turkey Program Leader Jason Hardin.
There should be many successful Texas hunters this season no matter the location, he said in an interview with the Texas Farm Bureau Radio Network.
“We had great production in 2019, so those birds are now two-year-olds across most of the [Rio Grande wild turkey] range. And we had another good year of production last year, so there will be a lot of jakes out there, which bodes well for new hunters or folks that are just out looking to put a bird in the freezer and also bodes well for the 2021-2022 season, because we’ll have a lot of two- and three-year old b
Jake Montz
Jake Montz pecan orchard. A Pecan Field Day is scheduled for April 9, Georgetown Pecan Company Orchards. Program to focus on pest, orchard floor management
Apr 05, 2021
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service office in Williamson County will present a Pecan Field Day on April 9 for anyone involved or interested in pecan production.
The free event will be from 10 a.m. to about 1 p.m. at Georgetown Pecan Company Orchards, 1300 County Road 150, Georgetown. Attendees are asked to dress appropriately for the weather and to bring a lawn chair in order to comfortably listen to program speakers.
The program will offer two Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units – one integrated pest management and one general – for those attendees with private applicator licenses.
Pecan Field Day, which includes a grafting workshop, will be held next week in Waco.
The event will start at 8 a.m. April 7 at Russell Pecans, 12633 Gholson Road in Waco. The event is hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service offices in Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hill, Limestone and McLennan counties.
Registration, which costs $10, will open at 8:30 a.m. One PM CEU will be offered.
Attendees are asked to bring their own lawn chair.
Event schedule is as follows:
9 to 10 a.m., Pecan Grafting: Tools, Methods and Demonstration, Monte Nesbitt â Pecan/Fruit/Citrus Program Specialist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension