Texas A&M AgriLife's digital magazine and newsroom
August 17th, 2017
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contacts: Dr. Clark Neely, 979-862-1412, cneely@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – While many varieties remain the same in Texas A&M AgriLife’s annual wheat “Picks” for producers across...
July 28th, 2016
Contact: Randy Seagraves, 979-845-8565, seagraves@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – The “Growing Good Kids – Excellence in Children’s Literature Award” has been conferred on three books, according to the American Horticultural...
July 1st, 2016
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jason Cleere, 979-845-6931, jjcleere@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Youth can learn more about the beef industry, including a virtual tour of a feedlot and...
February 2nd, 2016
AUSTIN – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in Travis County will present four opportunities in February for individuals to receive Texas Department of Agriculture continuing education units. Two courses...
February 1st, 2016
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Marty Gibbs, 325-653-4576, mj-gibbs@tamu.edu ANSON – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has named Kim Miles to the family and consumer sciences agent post...
February 1st, 2016
Writer: Kathleen Phillips, 979-845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Larry Stein, 830-278-9151, larry.stein@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — Things change. Seasons, people, trees. Yes, even trees. “My father-in-law bought a 200-acre farm when he...
February 1st, 2016
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contacts: Stan Bevers, 940-552-9941, sbevers@ag.tamu.edu VERNON – A growing interest in shifting out of crop production and into a forage-based system in the Rolling Plains...
January 30th, 2016
Black-eyed pea varieties improved in AgriLife Research breeding program Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. B.B. Singh, 979-845-3041, bsingh@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Everyone who ate their “good luck” black-eyed...
January 28th, 2016
Exhibits will focus on horticulture, agricultural production, natural resources Little Buckaroo Farms is a joint presentation of H-E-B and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. (Texas A&m AgriLife Extension Service...
January 27th, 2016
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu Contact: Connie Smotek, 979-845-5446, csmotek@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Two-time Olympian skeet shooter Connie Smotek continues to give back to the sport both as a youth...
January 27th, 2016
COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service safety experts know college towns may have more bicycle and pedestrian traffic than normal, but their message of pedestrian and bicyclist safety...
January 27th, 2016
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. David Anderson, 979-845-4351, danderson@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – More feedlot placements than expected, coupled with large supplies of cold storage beef, will pressure cattle...
January 27th, 2016
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Mark Tyson, 979-845-4698, mark.tyson@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is offering an online wild pig management course for landowners, land...
January 26th, 2016
AgriLife Research to take ground-penetrating research to new crops Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Dirk Hays, 979-458-0032, dbhays@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists will soon...
January 24th, 2016
BLEIBLERVILLE — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will hold a meeting of the Mill Creek Watershed Partnership on Feb. 29 to finalize the Mill Creek Watershed Protection Plan, coordinators...
January 23rd, 2016
Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu TYLER — The Build East Texas organization announced its 2014 and 2015 Awards of Excellence in Agricultural Research and Extension to Don Neuendorff, Overton, and...
January 23rd, 2016
Two Tyler area residents, Ted Conover and Darren Rozel, named Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu TYLER – Two Tyler residents Ted Conover and Darren Rozel, were presented the Build East...
January 20th, 2016
Program slated for Jan. 28 in Lubbock Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Vikram Baliga, 806-775-1740, Vikram.Baliga@ag.tamu.edu LUBBOCK – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will conduct the 2016...
January 20th, 2016
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Lloyd Nelson, lr-nelson@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Lloyd Nelson, Texas A&M AgriLife Research ryegrass and turfgrass breeder, will be awarded the 2015 Breeders...
January 18th, 2016
COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has hired four viticulture program specialists to assist grape growers with challenges and educational information, officials said. The positions, strategically located...
