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AgriLife to host virtual meeting Dec. 18, 7 CEUs offeredAgriLife to host virtual meeting Dec. 18, 7 CEUs offered

Texas Panhandle and South Plains producers have the opportunity to earn 7 CEUs at the upcoming virtual meeting held in various locations within districts 1 and 2.

Shelley E. Huguley, Senior Editor

December 16, 2024

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Shelley E. Huguley

Are you in need of continuing education units or CEUs? December 18, 2024, Texas A&M AgriLife is offering a virtual meeting, “Crop production and risk protection,” at various locations throughout the Panhandle and South Plains, where producers can earn 7 CEUs: 1 L&R (laws and regulations), 2 IPM (integrated pest management), 1 drift and 3 general.

The virtual program will be hosted at a variety of locations within AgriLife districts 1 and 2. “This is to provide the same information to every county in one unique program and to ensure those that need CEUs can obtain the seven that were approved,” says Danny Nusser, Texas A&M AgriLife regional program leader, Amarillo.

He says the meeting is designed to provide timely topics and relative information about the region's crops and livestock.

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Experts will present current research and education about cotton, corn, sorghum, wheat, and rangeland. While attendees can not view the virtual sessions on their home computer or mobile, they can watch them from the various locations listed in the graphic below.

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Registration, which begins at 8 a.m., will be followed by the following presentations:

  • Know your pesticide laws and regulations- Cheryl Goswick, Texas Department of Agriculture

  • Weed management decisions- Peter Dotray, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension/Texas Tech University

  • Update on cotton, corn, sorghum insect pests and potential issues, resolutions and technologies- David Kerns, Suhas Vyavhare, Pat Porter, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

  • Options for controlling woody species on rangeland- Morgan Treadwell, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

  • Matching available water to planted acreage and crop selection- Jordan Bell, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

  • Discussion and updates on diseases and viruses in Panhandle crops- Ken Obasa, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

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For more information, contact the offices listed in the above graphic.

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About the Author

Shelley E. Huguley

Senior Editor, Southwest Farm Press

Shelley Huguley has been involved in agriculture for the last 25 years. She began her career in agricultural communications at the Texas Forest Service West Texas Nursery in Lubbock, where she developed and produced the Windbreak Quarterly, a newspaper about windbreak trees and their benefit to wildlife, production agriculture and livestock operations. While with the Forest Service she also served as an information officer and team leader on fires during the 1998 fire season and later produced the Firebrands newsletter that was distributed quarterly throughout Texas to Volunteer Fire Departments. Her most personal involvement in agriculture also came in 1998, when she married the love of her life and cotton farmer Preston Huguley of Olton, Texas. As a farmwife, she knows first-hand the ups and downs of farming, the endless decisions made each season based on “if” it rains, “if” the drought continues, “if” the market holds. She is the bookkeeper for their family farming operation and cherishes moments on the farm such as taking harvest meals to the field or starting a sprinkler in the summer with the whole family lending a hand. Shelley has also freelanced for agricultural companies such as Olton CO-OP Gin, producing the newsletter Cotton Connections while also designing marketing materials to promote the gin. She has published articles in agricultural publications such as Southwest Farm Press while also volunteering her marketing and writing skills to non-profit organizations such as Refuge Services, an equine-assisted therapy group in Lubbock. She and her husband reside in Olton with their three children Breely, Brennon and HalleeKate.

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