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.
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