‘Battleground to Breaking Ground’ will be May 18 in Dallas; June 1 in Belton The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, in cooperation with the Texas AgrAbility Project and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will present an agriculture workshop designed especially for military veterans during May and June in two northeast Texas locations. The workshop will [...]
Fertility in dairy cattle is normally considered a result of multiple environmental factors, but more recently, scientists have determined there may be a greater genetic connection than once thought, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist. In order to search for genetic markers for fertility, Dr. Pablo Pinedo, AgriLife Research ruminant animal health scientist [...]
Fire-ravaged Bastrop State Park and its fabled Lost Pines area got a big boost this weekend on a quest to regain its lost beauty and ecological vitality, thanks to hundreds of Texas A&M University students who came to plant pine seedlings — thousands of them — under the watchful eyes of Texas A&M Forest Service [...]
When Chief Warrant Officer Eric Metcalf receives his master’s of wildlife science degree and certificate in military land sustainability at Texas A&M University this month, he will be combining his experience in the military with his love of wildlife and natural resource management. Metcalf, a pilot with the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Hood, is [...]
By Dr. Tammy R. Beckham, TVMDL Director When it comes to preparing Texas and the Southwest for disaster, we have an important job at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory. We focus on the disasters that may result from outbreaks of infectious animal diseases. We are meeting our responsibility on three major fronts: Our [...]
Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the US Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA), brought up some challenging questions in his keynote speech at the 2013 AgriLife Conference, Jan. 7-9, 2013. How will we feed, shelter and clothe 9 billion people in 2050? Better still… how will we do it with [...]
Announced by Gov. Rick Perry in late December, a 39-person Incident Management Team IMT was deployed to New York to support continued recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy. The IMT is tasked with maintaining a field outreach program and commodity distribution system to residents in affected areas of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Team members ensure [...]
There’s nothing like a couple years of drought to help determine the advances being made in drought-tolerant corn. And Dr. Qingwu Xue, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist, says there are some significant differences starting to show up. Xue, AgriLife Research crop stress physiologist in Amarillo, said drought and water issues have been very relevant [...]
Record-high carryover stocks of cotton and future weather patterns are just a few factors affecting cotton prices heading into 2013, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist. “We will see a cutback in Texas cotton acreage as farmers take advantage of strong corn, wheat and sorghum prices,” said Dr. John Robinson, AgriLife Extension [...]
by Cera Southerland, ’13 Every fall, Texas A&M University hosts one of its most interesting traditions, Elephant Walk. But there’s one class that gets a different experience out of this long-lived tradition. For more than 15 years, Dr. Ted Friend, a professor in animal behavior, has taken his Animal Science 310 class to Elephant Walk [...]