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The Midland and Ector county offices of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service will sponsor a Farm/Recreational Pond Field Day on Tuesday, June 22. The field day will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at noon.

Topics to be presented include: pond management, pond site selection and construction, stocking of ponds, fertilizing to increase production, pond ecology, harvesting fish to maintain balance, and pond weed control.

A $5 per person registration fee will be charged and participants will be eligible to earn one CEU.

The Reece Farm is located off Interstate 20 in Midland. To get to the farm take the Rankin Hwy. Exit off I-20. Go north on the Rankin Highway and turn west on Stokes Avenue. Follow the lane until it deadends at the Reece Farm.

Additional information about the Pond Field Day is available from the Midland County Extension office at (915)687-1351, or the Ector County Extension office at (915)498-4071.

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