MAILING LIST UPDATE
We are required by law to update mailing lists on an annual basis, therefore if you wish to continue receiving this newsletter, please fill out and return the enclosed card so that there will be no disruption of service to you. We would ask that all information be returned by April 15, 2002, so that updates may be timely. Thank you for your help in this matter.

FIELD RESEARCH
This year will be a learning experience for us all as I have been awarded two (2) IPM field research grants by Texas Department of Agriculture. One deals with fleahopper control in cotton and the other deals with diseases of cucurbit crops such as pumpkins and watermelons. A total of $300,000 was granted state-wide for such research projects and individual High Plains county IPM agents were awarded the lion's share. We look forward to an enormous amount of useful information being generated from this crop year. I will be asking for cooperators in the near future and ask that you be thinking about granting permission for a replicated result/demonstration to be completed on your farm.

RESULT DEMONSTRATION HANDBOOKS
These handbooks should be ready by April 15 and will be available upon request. If you were a program participant or a cooperator for a result/demonstration in 2001, you will automatically receive a copy. If you do not qualify for either category but still wish a copy, please contact Avis Kirkendall in our office and she will print you one. Due to the high cost of printing, we are trying to save some of our costs producing needless copies.

UPCOMING MEETINGS
– Calvin Trostle is advertising an Alfalfa meeting at the Ollie Liner Center in Plainview on April 3, 2002, with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. (806) 746-6101
– Plains Cotton Growers annual meeting is at the Lubbock Civic Center on April 5th.
– Peanut Production Meeting in Lorenzo on April 11th - give us a call for more details as this has not been formalized to date.
– Annual Scout School planned for May 31st at the Ollie Liner Center in Plainview. Greg Cronholm may be reached at (806) 291-5273 for more information.

BOLL WEEVIL
No overwintered boll weevils have been found to date with only a small portion of samples remaining to be examined. Keep your fingers crossed.

ALTERNATE PESTS
It would seem that our troubles might be over regarding cotton pests, but we all know what happens next! We must be diligent in watching for plant bug, thrips, beet armyworms and other so-called secondary pests of cotton and other commodities as we begin this new crop year.

2002
As we begin this new year, I would like to express my appreciation to all those individuals that make my job possible. Space does not permit the listing of those individuals but you know who you are. Thanks again and best wishes to you.