Growers Need to Be Familiar With Pesticide “Group Numbers”
I think that one of the most useful pieces of information, at least for resistance management, that has been placed on pesticide labels is the mode of action classification or “Group Number”. For insecticides this group number classification was developed by the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee or IRAC, http://irac-online.org which is made up of an...
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Summer Pecan Scab Defense
The start of the 2015 growing has been wetter than normal for many pecan growers in portions of Oklahoma, Central and Eastern Texas, the Central Gulf Coast and middle Georgia (Fig 1.). The National Weather Service has declared that El Nino is present, with a 70 percent chance of continuing through this summer and 60...
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Circle traps a useful tool in pecan weevil management
The objective of this study was to determine the average percentage of ground-emerging adult pecan weevils caught in Circle traps placed on trunks. This knowledge is essential for estimating numbers of weevils infesting pecan trees prior to management decisions (Mount, 2014). Previous research by Raney and Eikenbary (1968), Mulder et al. (2003), and Cottrell and...
Read moreProposed Marketing Order, Scab Control Need Attention
Here is it June already and I just got through with Christmas. Time has really moved along this year. I am told that it gets that way as you get older. In any event, I thought I would take a little time to comment on the crop prospects and other things since they so graciously...
Read morePublic Hearings for Federal Marketing Order Expedited—Set for July
The U. S. Department of Agriculture has announced and is proceeding with an expedited schedule for the Federal Marketing Order for Pecans. Based on recent meetings with the American Pecan Board, the proponent group representing the pecan industry, USDA staff has indicated a preference for a schedule that would allow for the Order to be...
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Growers Get Pecan Management Review at Bastrop County Field Day
Some Central Texas pecan growers met on April 22, at David Brummitt’s pecan farm for a Pecan Field Day. The field day was sponsored by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of Bastrop County and featured informational sessions from Extension representatives Larry Stein and Bill Ree. Brummitt bought his pecan farm in 1994 and said...
Read moreHas rain washed away the pecan crop?
As I sit down to write this article, the spring season is coming to an end. Catkins have come and gone, and most trees are finished shedding pollen for the year. Normally, I would have spent the last couple of months watching my wife and kids suffer through another miserable allergy season in Louisiana. But...
Read moreSoil Zinc Applications in the West Can Work
One of the most serious challenges for pecan producers out here in the southwestern growing region is maintaining adequate micronutrient nutrition of the trees. Micronutrient imbalances are common with pecan trees everywhere they are grown, but they are particularly difficult to manage in the arid/semi-arid western U.S. because of the nature of the region’s soils....
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Bluefford G. Hancock, 1925 – 2015
Bluefford G. Hancock passed away on Thursday, April 23, 2015 at the age of 90 following a long and successful career in Extension Horticulture at Texas A&M University at College Station. He was raised on a dairy farm in Erath County and served in the U.S. Army during WWII in Hawaii where he advanced to...
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