The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is offering three alfalfa mini workshops for West Texas alfalfa growers on Aug. 25-26 in Balmorhea, Lamesa and Plainview.The workshops will include discussion of agronomics, irrigation requirements and insect pests, and include a visit to a nearby alfalfa field.The cost is $10 per workshop and participants may pay onsite. No advance registration is required.One integrated pest management and one general Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education credit will be available at each workshop.“Alfalfa is widely regarded as the ‘queen of forage’,” said Calvin Trostle, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist, Lubbock. “But this queen is very ...