The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has specialists and agents statewide helping to keep Texans educated, informed and safe in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Calvin Trostle, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension agronomist in Lubbock, is a regular fixture on many agriculture radio programs in and around the center of the South Plains. His message, however, is reaching farther than ever before as stations share his message with dozens of their syndicated affiliates. Given his broad platform, Trostle decided it was time to discuss something besides sorghum, soil testing, cotton or cover crops over the air. “Farm and ranch country in Texas is still ...