Appendix 7. Contributors and resource people for crops in Texas Name Contribution/area of interest Employment-location David Bade Forage grasses TCE, College Station (retired) Marty Baker East Texas crops TCE, Tyler (retired) Vince Baker Vegetable crops - prison farm TDCJ Brent Bean* High Plains crops TCE, Amarillo Mark Black* Plant pathology & small crops TCE, Uvalde Kelly Book Seed certification TDA, Austin Steve Brown Foundation Seed Production TAES, Vernon Bryan Crook* Farmer reported crop statistic FSA - USDA College Station John da Graca Citrus crops TAMU Citrus Center, Weslaco Frank Dainello Vegetable crops TCE, College Station Bob Dumas Planting seed Brownfield Gerald Evers Forage legumes TAES, Overton Mike Foster Industrial crops - Ag TAES, Pecos Doyle Fuchs Ag Statistics for Texas USDA, NASS, Austin Henry Graham Honey bees & pollen USDA ARS Bee Lab, Weslaco James Grichar* Weeds in crops USDA, ARS Bee Lab, Weslaco Wendell Howard Planting seed Richardson’s, Lubbock Jamie Iglesias Far West Texas horticultural crops TCE - El Paso James Kamas Fruit crops TCE, Fredericksburg Harold Kaufman Field & horticultural crops TCE, Lubbock Steven Koepp Oil seed crops Triumph Seed, Ralls Ray Langham Sesame SESACO, San Antonio Chuck Lay Sunflowers Philo, IL Charles Leamans Texas Seed Trade Association Brenham Steve Livingston Field crops TCE, Corpus Christi Robert McGee Vegetable crops TAES, Weslaco Alan Mize Vegetable crops Del Monte, Uvalde Bill Ocumpaugh Forage crops TAES, Beeville George Philley Small crops and diseases TCE, Overton Leonard Pike Vegetable breeder TAES, College Station Gary Pogue Pogue Agri Partners Kenedy Ray Prewett TX Veg. Assoc. & TX. Citrus Mission Larry Redmon Forage Agronomist TCE, Overton William Rooney Sorghum breeder TAES, College Station Monte Rouquette Forage crops TAES, Overton John Sij Specialty crops TAES, Vernon Charles Simpson Peanuts TAES, Stephenville Larry Stein Horticultural crops TCE, Uvalde Charles Stichler Western crops and forages TCE, Uvalde Jim Taylor Peas, Inc. Pleasanton Calvin Trostle Specialty crops TCE, Lubbock Noel Troxclair Entomology TCE, Uvalde Russ Wallace Vegetable horticulture TCE, Lubbock Mike Walterscheidt Christmas trees T.C.T.G.A., Elgin Rosemary Walzem Nutrition & food genomics TAMU, College Station Yin-Tung Wang Aloe vera & speciality crops TAES, Weslaco Kenneth White Vegetable crops TCE/CEA, Uvalde “ * ” denotes special assistance in providing data or helping with reviews. TCE: Texas Cooperative Extension TAES: Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, TDA: Texas Dept. Agriculture FSA: Farm Service Agency

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