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2023 CSRL Field Day
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USDA-ARS
Cropping Systems Research Lab (CSRL) Field Day
August 6 2019 - 8:15 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.
USDA-ARS Research Farm, 3810 4th Street Lubbock, TX
[5 CCA Crop Management Continuing Education Units]

[2 Texas Dept. of Agriculture Continuing Education Units]

RSVP to: Teresa.McKelvey@ars.usda.gov
Schedule

8:15 – 8:45  Registration and Coffee

 

 

8:45 – 9:00  Introduction and Overview

• Introduction:Alejandro Rooney (CSRL Director)
• Field Day Overview: Paxton Payton

8:45 – 12:00  Field Tour

•  Integrated Systems Approach for Optimized Irrigation Scheduling for Cotton Production Environments (James Mahan, Paxton Payton).

•  Preservation of Cotton Fiber Quality: In-season management and harvesting decisions (John Wanjura, James Mahan, Will Dodge, Andrew Young, Paxton Payton, Greg Holt).

•  Photogrammetric Growth and Yield Analysis of Raingrown Cotton (Will Dodge, Andrew Young, Paxton Payton, James Mahan).

•  An Integrated, Inter-Regional Approach to Breeding Multiple Market Classes of Peanut for Enhanced Productivity and Sustainability under Water Deficit (Naveen Puppala [New Mexico State Univ.], Mark Burow [Texas AgriLife Research], James Mahan, Paxton Payton).

•  Development of Advanced Physiological and Molecular Markers for Stress Tolerance in Peanut (Mark Burow [Texas AgriLifeResearch], Naveen Puppala (New Mexico State Univ.), James Mahan, Paxton Payton)

•  Screening for Slow Wilting Phenotypes in Peanut (Paxton Payton, James Mahan, Tom Sinclair (North Carolina State Univ.])

•  Phenotypic and Physiological Screening of Near Isolines of Multiseeded Sorghum (Gloria Burow, Zhanguo Xin, Chad Hayes, Yves Emendack, James Mahan, Paxton Payton).

 • Identification of New Sources of Thermal Tolerance in Sorghum (Chad Hayes,Yves Emendack).

 • Development of Superior Sorghum Inbred Lines through Marker-assisted Trait Pyramiding (Halee Hughes, Gloria Burow, Zhanguo Xin, Chad Hayes).

 • Physiological Characterization of Maize Core Lines for their Diversity in Heat Stress Responses (Junping Chen, Haydee Laza, Paxton Payton).

 • Introgression of Ethiopian Photoperiod Sensitive Germplasm with a U.S Adapted Breeding Line (Chad Hayes, Matt Nesbitt).

 • Identification of Genetic Components of Heat Tolerance in Maize and Sorghum (Junping Chen, Haydee Laza, Zhanguo Xin).

 

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Afternoon Presentations

• “The Current Legislative and Farm Bill Landscape” (Tom Sell, Combest, Sell and Associates).

• “Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit: Current Research and Technology Transfer Activities.” (Greg Holt, Cotton Processing and Production Research Unit).

• “Livestock Issues Research Unit: Pasture to Plate Food Safety”. (Rand Broadway, Livestock Issues Research Unit).

• “Research Activities of the Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Unit “ (Robert Lascano, Wind Erosion and Water Conservation Research Unit).