Red River Crops Conference to begin Wednesday
Red River Crops Conference to begin Wednesday By Tiffany Bechtel | January 19, 2021 at 4:49 PM CST - Updated January 19 at 4:49 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - The 2021 Red River Crops Conference will begin Wednesday, January 20 at 6:30 a.m.
The conference is going to be completely virtual this year and will last for two days. The first day will cover information on cotton crops and the second day will cover other in season crops.
The agenda for the event can be found on their Facebook.
Speakers scheduled to appear include Dr. John Long from OSU, Mr. Francisco Abello with Texas A&M AgriLife, and Dr. Jody Campiche from the National Cotton Council.
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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