BELLVILLE - Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of Austin County and South Tex -
as-based specialists are hosting the Annual South Texas Agri - culture Symposium on Tuesday, April 29. This year is a "rapid fire" approach with 15 presenta - tions in 15-minute intervals in a half-day program.
This program will be broad -
cast virtually from South Texas, where the specialists will be pre senting live.
The topics will include Small Acreage Opportunities, The Rel - evance of Income Diversification in Farm Production, Parasite Control in Goats and Sheep, Knowing Your Plants: Creating a Farm/Ranch Herbarium, Man - aging to Maximize Rainfall In -
filtration, Things to Watch Out for with Generic Herbicides.
The presentation will also include Increasing Your Cow - herd's Profitability with a Breed - ing Season, What Mineral Sup - plement(s) Does My Cowherd Need, Vultures: Love Them or Hate Them, Using Drones on Ranches, What's That Fungus, The Challenges of Growing Cit- rus. Rounding out the 15-min -
ute rapid fire presentations will be The Corn-Leaf Hopper, The Economics of Grain Storage De - cisions, and Watering and Fertil - izing Fruit Trees. This event will be broadcast at the Austin County Extension office located at 800 E Wendt St., Bellville, Texas 77418. Registration will be from 8 to 8:30 a.m., with the program be - ginning at 8:30 a.m. and conclud - ing at 12:30 p.m. The program will cost $20 per person. Please RSVP by Friday, April 25 with the Austin County Extension office at 979-865-2072 or online at https://austin.agrilife. org/event-registrations/.
If you have any questions, get in touch with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Ag & Natu - ral Resources Agent, Stacie Vil -
larreal, at 979-865-2072.
