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Cotton, peanut, sorghum and maize research to be highlighted on the field tour.

Shelley E. Huguley, Editor

July 25, 2019

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James Mahan, USDA-ARS, left, discusses cotton research with attendees at the 2018 field day. Shelley E. Huguley

USDA’s Lubbock, Texas, Cropping Systems Research Lab is opening its doors to the public for its 2019 field day, Tuesday, August 6.

“Producers, students, ag-consultants, actually anyone who is curious about federal ag research in the West Texas region is welcome,” says Dr. Steve Mauget, USDA-ARS Plant Stress and Water Conservation Laboratory meteorologist.

Registration for the free event will begin at 8:15 a.m., followed by field tours, lunch, and four, brief afternoon presentations, including a legislative and farm bill update by Tom Sell of Combest, Sell and Associates. The lab is located at 3810 4th Street.

The morning field tour will highlight research related to cotton, peanuts, sorghum, and maize. Seven continuing education units will be offered (five crop management and two TDA units).

Click here for more information or contact Teresa McKelvey at [email protected].

 

 

About the Author(s)

Shelley E. Huguley

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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