Written by Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu
Contact: Dr. Paul DELAUNE, 940-552-9941, pdelaune@ag.tamu.edu
VERNON - A visit to the Rolling Plains on the ground "practices to improve / water soil health and soil protection" is, on August 14 of the Texas A & M AgriLife Research, the Ministry of kept Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service and local soil, the United States and water conservation districts.
Registration begins at 8 clock in the Haynesville Punkin Center Volunteer Fire Department, located 0.3 miles south of the intersection of Highway 240 and State or 3 miles north of Electra highway.
The visit will take from 9.00 bis 16.30 clock, with stops at the plant Counties Archer, Baylor, Wichita and Wilbarger. Admission is free, and lunch and transportation will be provided, according to Dr. Paul DELAUNE, AgriLife Research associate in the Environment Soil Vernon and organizer.
RSVP required 6 August Sloane Montano Sloane.Montano @ 940-552-9941 ext 206 or ag.tamu.edu.
Discussion of the day is health / agricultural scientists are directed to the National Technology Centre East in Greensboro, North Carolina by Ray Archuleta and DELAUNE Conservation Service, USDA Natural Resources Specialist floor.
Archuleta teaches soil health and the principles of agroecology in the country DELAUNE said, adding: "His infectious enthusiasm for soil health has earned him the nickname, the individual floor support.
"We are fortunate to have Ray join us for the excursion. Visited the area before, at a workshop of soil health in the Chillicothe Research Station in the fall of 2012, before the publication of the initiative, the current soil health USDA-NRCS.
"I know Ray is not only happy to share their knowledge, but learn faced more about the practices and challenges of farmers in the harsh environmental conditions in the Rolling Plains of Texas," DELAUNE said.
Participants can also listen to experienced producers and begin the tour stops, without plowing, offers the opportunity to see what their colleagues are doing and how they overcome the challenges in the cash register, he said.
DELAUNE the columns are each also tagged fields mitcover cultures. There is a variety of options that. Groundcover, which have already been terminated by cover crops that were planted recently
The program is both experienced and beginning farmers without tillage DELAUNE benefit said.
Tourstopps field contains information about:
- Infiltration, runoff, nutrient recycling and soil health in the direct sowing culture systems.
- Challenges in direct seeding.
- Water consumption fruit.
- The integration of green manure in wheat cropping systems.
- Pastures and wheat cover in no-till systems.
- The first-hand knowledge of experienced and inexperienced producer unplowed.
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