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Landscape executive sees future in ‘greening’ in industry, pursuing customers
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COLLEGE STATION 'The U.S. landscape industry has enjoyed decades of prosperity, but that will continue only if operators pursue their customers, look for more environmentally friendly growing and selling methods and learns problem-solving skills. That's according to Robert Dolibois, executive vice president of the American Nursery and Landscape Asso
Program in McKinney to focus on emerging pests, fire ant-control
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MCKINNEY 'The Texas AgriLife Extension Service will co-host the program, “Fire Ant Control and Insect Management,” from 8 a.m. to noon on Oct. 10 in McKinney.The program will be held at the Myers Park and Event Center, 7117 County Road 166, in McKinney. “It will be a field day farmers, ranchers, gardeners, landscapers and pesticide applicators won't
U.S. Agriculture Secretary praises Borlaug Institute project efforts in Guatemala
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GUATEMALA CITY 'U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer praised the Texas A&M System's Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture for its Food for Progress project efforts in Guatemala during his recent trade mission to Central America.Schafer was in Guatemala in late September as part of the U.S. Agribusiness Trade and Investment Miss
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Chilli thrips attack Houston roses, landscape plants
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OVERTON 'Chilli thrips, a new invasive insect pest, is causing severe damage to ornamental plants throughout the Houston area. And Hurricane Ike may have spread the pest further, beyond the region, said Dr. Scott Ludwig, Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologist and integrated pest management specialist. The insect, only one-sixteenth inch lon
Prospective wine-grape grower workshop set Oct. 23 in Saint Jo
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SAINT JO 'The Texas AgriLife Extension Service “Prospective Wine-Grape Growers Workshop” will be held from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. on Oct. 23 at the Oak Creek Vineyard in Saint Jo. Saint Jo is about 22 miles west of Gainesville. Oak Creek Vineyard is at 228 Wagner Road, about six miles north of the intersection of Highway 667 and Highway 82.
National nursery, landscape leader to address floriculture series
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COLLEGE STATION 'Bob Dolibois will discuss "Keys to Future Success in the Green Industry" on Oct. 8 at the Distinguished Lecture Series on International Floriculture at Texas A&M University in College Station.The Distinguished Floriculture Lecture Series is sponsored by the Texas A&M horticultural sciences department's Ellison Chair in International
Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory gets new director
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COLLEGE STATION 'Dr. Kevin Ong, a Texas AgriLife Extension Service plant pathologist, has been named director of the Texas Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory.Ong replaces the laboratory's founder, Dr. Larry Barnes, who retired at the end of August, said Dr. David Appel, associate department head in plant pathology and microbiology at Texas A&M Univ
Residential Citrus Survey Starts in Lower Rio Grande Valley
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WESLACO -- Trained teams of insect scouts are fanning out across the Rio Grande Valley this week in a year-long, door-to-door search for a disease that kills citrus trees and the insect that spreads it, experts say.Starting in the Mission and McAllen areas, 28 employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be knocking on doors Valley-wide, a
Food, health get top billing at national chemistry meeting
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PHILADELPHIA 'Credit goes to chemists for advising us to drink enough H2O and not eat too much NaCl. Now they are getting elemental with grapefruit, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots and watermelons at this week's American Chemical Society meeting. The world's largest scientific society is observing the 100th anniversary of its Agricultural and Foo
Radio Personality Honored With Inaugural Award
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NEW BRAUNFELS 'A veteran Texas radio personality has been named the recipient of the Texas Extension Specialists Association's award for outstanding support of Extension specialists. Curt Lancaster, Texas Farm Bureau Network's director of advertising sales and marketing, received the honor in early August during the association's annual meeting he
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