Texas A&M AgriLife Hill County

09/11/2025

Hill County continues to offer a bounty program for the control/abatement of feral hogs. Known as "Bucks for Bacon" since 2014, this program has tracked the harvest of 12,000+ feral hogs in Hill County. If you would like to be involved in this, please attend one of the following required meetings to learn about feral hog and ways to control them!

Secure your seat by calling (254) 582-4022

09/10/2025

If you are needing or wanting to get you Private Applicator License please give us a call.

What is a private applicator? A valid applicators license is required by TDA for a person who uses or supervises the use of restricted use and/or state limited use pesticides to produce agriculture commodities on property you own or manage without compensation.

04/24/2025

Due to the rainfall received today and what is predicted, we have decided to NOT visit the plots this afternoon.

Please plan to meet at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Abbott!

04/07/2025

Join us for the Hill County Wheat Tour - April 24! Plot location/agenda listed on flyer.

RSPV by April 21st

04/07/2025

Interested in learning about the Texas Wine Grape Industry? Join us on May 6th for the 8th Annual Central Texas Vines & Wines. This year we are offering a traveling bus tour of that will showcase 4 local vineyards/wineries and cover several topics.

09/20/2024

Recent rainfall has led to the development of fall armyworms is some spots. If you have had rain recently, be on the lookout for potential infestations. I have had a few calls this week about little green worms crawling everywhere. I went out to look at some this afternoon and they were indeed fall armyworms of varying sizes.

Two are more fall armyworms is the economic threshold.

Scout early in the day or late in the evening when the armyworms are most active. The ones I looked at today were busy in 90+ degree heat, which is unusual.

08/21/2024

Pesticide Applicator Training Class
Date: September 25, 2024
Location: Hill County AgriLife Extension Service – 213 Stadium Dr. Hillsboro, TX 76645

What is a Private Pesticide Applicator?

A private pesticide applicator is someone who uses or supervises the use of restricted-use or state-limited-use pesticides or regulated herbicides to produce an agricultural commodity on personally owned property, rented property, property owned by his or her employer, property under his or her general control or the property of another person if applied without compensation, other than the trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities.

Attending a Private Applicator training is step number ONE for anyone wanting to become a licensed private pesticide applicator with the Texas Department of Agriculture.

RSVP by September 18, 2024 by call (254) 582-4022!

07/15/2024

Hill County Extension is hosting a Landowners Ag Introduction Evening this Thursday, July 18th. Introductions to AgriLife Extension, FSA, NRCS, and the Hill County Appraisal Office will be given. Overviews of forage, livestock and vegetable production will also be presented.

Dinner is provided, please call 254-582-4022 to RSVP. Registration is $15, cash or check only.

03/28/2024

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-Hill County will be hosting the 2024 Hill County Wheat Tour on April 25th. Registration will begin at 5pm at the Uniform Variety Trial located at FM 1242 & HCR 3160 East of Abbott. Dinner and presentations will follow at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Abbott.

There will be 1 IPM CEU offered during this event.

We look forward to seeing you there so please RSVP no later than April 19th by calling 254 582-4022.

03/01/2024

Panhandle Wildfire Relief Information

Relief resources flyer is being constantly updated via that page.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is working through our county agents and Disaster Assessment & Recovery (DAR) Unit to help the residents of the Texas Panhandle who sustained losses as a result of the wildfires beginning February 26, 2024.

02/29/2024

Wildfire Donations to support Texas Panhandle

The Smokehouse Creek fire has now become the largest wildfire to impact Texas. With an estimated 1,075,000 acres burned and minimal containment at this time. Our fellow agricultural producers in the Texas Panhandle are suffering great losses of property, livestock, and equipment. Donations of hay, feed, fencing supplies, cow feed and milk replacer are needed to support livestock owners impacted by the devastating wildfires that have scorched ranchland across a large portion of the Texas Panhandle.

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has established Animal Supply Points in several locations in the region to accept donations. The purpose of the Animal Supply Point is to meet area producers’ most critical needs such as providing feed for cattle while they assess their individual operation’s other needs.

If you are interested in contributing to the Animal Supply Points, please see the photo for information.

General questions about donations or relief efforts can be made at 806-354-5800.

Donations of other types can be made at the following locations:

Hemphill County General Donations: send to AgriLife Extension – Hemphill County, 10965 Exposition Center Road, Canadian, Texas 79014 or call 806-323-9114.

Hutchinson County Relief Fund: Hutchinson County United Way fund at the Amarillo National Bank or https://www.hutchinsoncountyunitedway.org/donate.

Potter County: Donations can be mailed to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Attn: Potter Ag, 3301 SE 10th Building 1, Amarillo, Texas 79104. Checks should be made out to Potter Ag.

Monetary donations in Gray County should be sent to: City of Pampa – Attn: Finance, Box 2499, Pampa, Texas 79066-2499, reference 02/27/2024 Fire, or made by phone or in person at FirstBank Southwest-Pampa at 806-665-2341. Reference City of Pampa donation for Smokehouse Creek Fire.

To make donations for people who lost their homes in Hemphill County, go to First Baptist Canadian at http://fbccanadian.org/firehelp/ or Hemphill County Agriculture Wildfire Relief, Box 300, Canadian, Texas 79104.

Donations of hay can also be made through the Texas Department of Agriculture Hay Hotline and, a relief fund has been established through the STAR Fund Disaster Assistance through the Texas Department of Agriculture.

08/18/2023

The Annual CenTex Beef Symposium will be held September 22nd in Falls County at the Moreno Ranch. This event rotates to a different county each year highlighting local agriculture. Do not miss this unique program.

Contact the McLennan County Extension Office to RSVP and to be a sponsor! We will have agriculture vendors on site!

Hosted by the Moreno family and Extension Offices in Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Johnson & Robertson County.

RSVP by contacting the Hill County Extension Office at (254) 582-4022.