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Texas Cooperative Extension crop production guides are available on the web
Lubbock, Texas
April 14, 2005

Farming is a question-and-answer game. When to plant? When to spray? Where did these weeds come from? How do I kill them? What is that critter crawling around on my cotton?

Find the right information, and an answer may present itself.

That's the intent of a series of crop production guides created by Texas Cooperative Extension specialists and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station research scientists housed at the Texas A&M University System Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Lubbock.

Each guide addresses a specific topic/problem and offers advice and options producers can use to formulate their own solution.

The production guides grew out of the widely popular Focus on Entomology newsletter published by Jim Leser, Extension cotton entomologist at Lubbock. The newsletter is published electronically during the June through September High Plains cotton growing season.

"Focus on Entomology addresses growing conditions and problems that producers encounter in cotton and other crops," Leser said. "But it goes beyond entomology. It and the production guides discuss topics other than bugs."
For example, there are production guides written specifically for insects and plant disease, irrigation, weed control and herbicide options, soil fertility, harvest management, and variety and hybrid selection for upland cotton, grain sorghum, peanuts and corn. Color photographs illustrate key points in each guide.

There more than 16 production guides currently available at the newsletter's electronic home on the World Wide Web: http://lubbock.tamu.edu/focus .

"We plan on completing 16 more guides before the end of this year," Leser said. "You can view the guides electronically on a computer, or download and print them as a user-friendly PDF (portable document) file.
"If resources become available, we plan to print and package the full series of cotton production guides in a three-ring binder."

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