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Wednesday's
Editorials, Columns & Letters
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As Harvest Season Approaches TDA Approves
Label For Gramoxone Inteon For 2006 Use
By Roger Haldenby
Texas Department of Agriculture announced today the ap
proval of two F1FRA Section 24(c) Special Local Need labels
At the request of product manufacturer Syngenta, and
supported byTexas Cooperative Extension and Plains Cotton
Growers, Inc., TDA has granted an exemption to the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act Section 24(c) that
will allow cotton producers in Texas (with the exception of Starr.
Hidalgo, Willacy and Cameron counties) to apply "Gramoxone
Inteon” as a harvest aid on cotton at modified rates.
Full details are on the label, which must be in the possession
of the user at the time of application. A copy of the label for
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AUSTIN - Texas hosted the
2Tth annual Border Governors
Conference, Aug. 24-25.
Officials from the Lone Star
Stcjte, New Mexico, Arizona and
California met at the state Cap-
itol with governors'and officials
from the northernmost Mexican
states.
Border security was the
main topic, and Homeland
Security chief Michael Chertoff
spoke. Other topics included
commerce and security. Meet-
ings were held behind closed
doors.
Gov. Rick Perry told re-
porters fhat commerce and
immigration are concerns that
come after security in his book,
and that he doesn’t plan to wait
for the federal government to
tighten up the border.
Outside, immigration policy
protesters and counterprotesters
expressed their opinions in 100-
plus degree heat.
In El Paso a couple of days
before the Austin conference,
Perry said increased joint law
enforcement in the borderlands,
has helped lower the crime rate
in some communities.
"When you increase patrols,
you decrease crime," he said.
Governors capped the bor-
der conference by co-signing a
letter to congressional leaders,
urging lawmakers in Wash-
ington D.C., to pass legislation
enhancing border security and
controlling immigration.
In mid-August, the state of
Texas supplied El Paso County
more than $2 million to work
with federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies to dis-
rupt organized criminal groups
involved in violent crime, gangs*
human trafficking, money laun-
dering and drug trafficking.
More park funding, chair-
man says
Texas law devotes $32
million a year from the state
sporting goods tax to maintain
the state parks system. But the
parks are only getting a fraction
•of the revenue.
Result: the parks aren't
doing so well. In fact, there's
a whole lot of crumbling going
on It's no wonder, with some
10 million people visiting each
year.
On Aug 24 the Texas Parks
& Wildlife Commission met with
its 17-member Parks & Wildlife
Advisory Committee.
Former state Sen John
Montford, chairman of the
committee, suggested using the
entire state sporting goods sales
tax for parks to increase funding
by about $85 million per year,
with the Legislature's approval.
"Virtually every major Texas
newspaper in recent months has
devoted either editorial or col-
umn space to supporting our
state parks. The time for action
is now," Montford said.
Whooping cough initiative
begins
The Texas Department of
State Healtfi Services launched
a whooping cough education
campaign Aug. 21.
The agency is spreading the
word about new vaccines that
can protect people ages 10 to
64 against whooping cough, or
pertussis.
Last year the health agency
reported more than 2,000
whooping cough cases with
nine deaths. Eight of those who
died were infants.
Symptoms include runny
nose, sneezing and a cough
similar to a cold, severe cough
ing fits and coughing spells last
ing more than six weeks.
AG warns of federal bud-
get cut
The state's child support
collections program is going to
suffer if the Texas Legislature
doesn't fill a financial gap on
the horizon.
Attorney General Greg
Abbott gave the Legislature a
heads up, because the federal
Deficit Reduction Act is going to
leave his child support division
about $200 million short in the
2008-2009 biennium.
Without adequate fund-
ing, hjs office would be forced
to cut jobs, resulting in a sharp
reduction in child support col-
lections, Abbott said.
Drought losses register
double
Texas Cooperative Exten-
sion economists report drought
losses statewide are now more
than $4 billion for the year.
That's twice the previous high
of $2 billion set in 1998.
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http://www.plainscotton.org/GramoxoneSL.Nlabel.htm
2006 Harvest Aid Guide In The Works
Based on the rapid development of the 2006 crop, both
irrigated and dryland. High Plains cotton producers are already
beginning to think about their harvest aid regimens.
As usual, the best place for growers to go for sound advice
will be a newly updated Harvest Aid Guide published by Dr
Randy Boman, Cotton Agronomist, Texas Cooperative Exteu
sion Dr Boman reports that the revised 2006 Harvest Aid Guide
will be available on the Lubbock TAMU Research and Extension
Center website as quickly as possible. The'revised 2006 Guide
will be located at: http://lubbock tamu.edu/cotton
The revised 2006 Guide will also include data and rec-
ommendations for all currently available products including
Gramoxone Inteon.
Recent Rains Help Irrigated Cotton But Are
"Too Little; Too Late" To Help Dryland Crop
By Shawn Wade
High Plains cotton producers have welcomed a recent break
in the year's predominantly dry weather pattern and many have
seized the opportunity to take a much needed break in what
had become a non-stop effort to keep irrigation water flowing
to a thirsty crop.
The area is benefiting from over a week of cooler tempera-
tures and varying amounts of rainfall. While the rainfall was a
far cry from the general rain that most had hoped to see move
through the region, the storms have provided some significant
rainfall totals in many areas of the Plains.
If is unfortunate that the change in the weather didn’t hap
pen a few weeks earlier. If it had more of the area's dryland
producers could have reaped some benefit from the rain as well.
As it stands, however, the rain was just "Too Little; Too Late" to
help improve the prospects of most dryland acres.
Dryland crops tl\at received the highest levels of rainfall could
even take a step backward if the plants begin to regrow, which
would make harvest even more difficult, or shed bolls.
On a brighter note, the rainfall was a boon to irrigated pro-
ducers across the board. While not likely to significantly increase v
current yield prospects since the crop is for the most part well
past "cut-out," the rains have allowed many growers to rest ir
rigation wells that have been the crop's only source of water for
most of the growing season.
.Based on the calendar and the advanced maturity of the
crop overall, some growers may opt to terminate their irrigation,
activity altogether if they received enough rain to finish the crop
out. For those that are still on the outside looking in, or who have
been on the fringes of the recent storms, another round pf storms
in the next week could see them take similar action.
Yield prospects for the area are unchanged with most irri-
gated crops expected to produce near average yields. Dryland
crop yields are expected to be well below average as well and
many fields could be abandoned before harvest due to extremely
poor yield prospects. %
No Decision On Changes To Boll Count Appraisal
Process
Earlier this month, Plains Cotton Growers officials requested
a change in the boll count appraisal process as it applies to
dryland cotton in an effort to address the significant impact this
year's drought is having on that potion of the crop.
Extreme drought stress causes cotton plants to be abnormally
short (making them harder to harvest efficiently because what few
bolls the plants are able to set art generally very close to ground
level) and undergo a restricted reproductive growth period due
to the plants inability to produce additional fruiting branches.
This often translates directly into dryland plants that are only
able to sustain 1-3 small bolls, of which a high percentage will
fail to contribute to yield either because they are not able to be
retrieved by mechanical harvesting equipment or simply fail to
fully mature and open.
The lack of moisture during the bloom/boll-setting period
also leads to bolls that contain fewer seed per boll which con-
tributes to a smaller overall boll size and further decreases the
crops yield potential.
PCG's ongoing discussion with the USDA Risk Management
Agency about their boll count deviation request has stressed
that the advanced maturity of the 2006 dryland crop makes it
imperative that the calculations done by appraisers recognize
the reduced yield potential of the crop. Dryland crops in many
areas are already at a point where boll count appraisals could
be requested.
The latest word from RMA is that a decision could be made
by early next week and allow remaining dryland acres to be
evaluated using a revised boll count procedure.
NRCS To Hold 2007 EQIP PDG/LWG Meetings
Texas Soil and Water Conservation Districts invite the public;—
and any agencies with interest, to participate in the agency’s 2007
Program Development Group (PDG) meetings.
PDG meetings are led by the local Soil and Water Con-
servation District (SWCD) in partnership with USDA-Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Each county in
Texas holds the public meetings annually and meeting in-
formation will soon be posted on the Texas NRCS website
(www.tx.nrcs.usda.gov). A partial list of PDG meetings already
scheduled is listed below.
The purpose of the PDG is to provide members of the com-
munity a forum for submitting recommendations on local issues
and county based funding that can be addressed through the
Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
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