Despite change in typical climate, Brazos Valley farmers are loving the recent rain showers
and last updated 2021-01-20 19:53:18-05
BRYAN, TEXAS â They say rain is a good thing, but it s not something a ton of us see often in the Lone Star State.
With all the rainy weather in the upcoming forecasts. farmers, certainly are appreciative. In what are normally dry conditions in Texas though, how are crops fairing?
Rain isn t always in the forecast here in Texas, and experts say, there s a reason for it. Early on by November and October last year, it was anticipated that La Niña would have a severe effect on the growing conditions on most of the seasonal crops, Fernando Guillen, a Small Grains and Oil Seed Crops Specialist at Texas A&M said.
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Visiting between sessions at the 2020 Red River Crops Conference, Altus, Okla. The 2021 conference will be virtual. Condensed event offers management information for Texas, Oklahoma producers
The eighth annual Red River Crops Conference goes virtual Jan. 20-21. The event, offering crop production information focused on Southwest Oklahoma and the Texas Rolling Plains, is co-hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service.
This year’s goal is to provide the same high quality and relevant management information that will help agricultural producers on both sides of the Red River, in spite of the pandemic requirements that keep everyone from meeting in person, said co-hosts Emi Kimura, AgriLife Extension agronomist and state peanut specialist, Vernon, and Gary Strickland, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension agriculture educator-Jackson County and Southwest Research and Extension Center r