COLLEGE STATION — A state loan program to help irrigators pay for equipment that conserves water could increase its number of loans with a few changes, a joint study between Texas A&M and Texas Tech universities concludes. The Texas Agricultural Water Conservation Loan Program provides low-interest loans to local conservation districts, which in turn provide… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — They look like perfectly formed factory Christmas trees stuck in dirt. But the only thing artificial about these living tannenbaums is the way life began — as clones rather than seedlings. The first of several hundred cloned Virginia pines growing in Texas soil are ready this year to deck the halls in… Read More →
SAN ANTONIO — Strolling along the famous River Walk, the faint smell of tortillas and picante beckons tourists from around the world. But the roots of those products, not the people who come for them, provide the bigger impact on San Antonio, the state’s third largest city. Agribusiness — from the farm to the processing… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — Lean, undrained ground meat might taste better and be more healthful than drained, high-fat ground meat after both are browned in a skillet, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher says. “There are tradeoffs involved with each kind of meat,” said Dr. Ki Soon Rhee, a professor of animal science at Texas A&M… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — A controversial method for using water to help avoid grain elevator explosions should not be banned by the federal government, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher says. Dr. Calvin Parnell, an experiment station researcher and professor in the Texas A&M University agricultural engineering department, testified before Congress in October that using water… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — A collection of environmental news articles, videos, radio features and educational publications produced by the Texas A&M University department of agricultural communications has been selected as the Best Total Public Relations Program by Keep Texas Beautiful, Inc. The materials, produced June 1992-September 1993, were honored during the Environmental Expo, sponsored by Keep… Read More →
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Fred Miller, (979) 845-2151, John Fielek, (979) 845-4051 COLLEGE STATION — A new line of grain sorghum that will play as well in Timbuktu as Texas has been released to seed companies by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. “Within three years, there will be widespread planting… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — Talking about the importance of shipping U.S. agricultural products to overseas markets is easy. Trying to actually export a product is like attempting to recite the name and capital of every country in the world, in the native language of each, in alphabetical order. Most would give up after a couple of… Read More →
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Lloyd Hossner (979) 845-3814, Dr. Ed Colburn (979) 845-2935 COLLEGE STATION — A team of soil scientists who started digging up facts about lignite coal mining in the 1970s have unearthed the secrets to reclaiming disturbed land. For their efforts in “minimizing the harmful environmental effects… Read More →
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Ray Frisbie, an expert in integrated pest management, has been named head of the entomology department at Texas A&M University. “Dr. Frisbie has been a national leader in the sciences of entomology and will continue to make enormous strides toward an even greater awareness of entomology and related sciences internationally,” said… Read More →
