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TEXAS A&M AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATORS EARN TOP ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORT

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 →

New worldly grain sorghum line released

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 →

GEMS PROGRAM HELPING SHOW AG PRODUCERS HOW TO EXPORT

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 →

Secrets Of Land Reclamation Unearthed In Lignite Mines

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 →

FRISBIE NAMED ENTOMOLOGY DEPARTMENT HEAD

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 →

TEXAS REROUTES TRAPS AS USDA PULLS OPERATIONS OUT OF STATE

COLLEGE STATION — Texas Apiary Inspection Service officials are busy rerouting trap lines across the state to compensate for the closure of a federal agency’s Africanized Honey Bee program. “We’re in the process of putting up some more traps. I believe we’ll pick up west of Austin to Ozona and from San Angelo to Killeen,”… Read More →

BEEF CENTER BRINGS NEW EDUCATIONAL CONCEPT TO TEXAS A&M

COLLEGE STATION — As fall classes begin, the partially completed Animal Science Teaching, Research and Extension Complex near the Brazos River is already bringing an updated educational concept to a new breed of student. The first beef cattle laboratory sessions will be held in the new complex’s Beef Center at the start of the semester…. Read More →

AFRICAN BREED SHOWS PROMISE FOR CARCASS TRAITS

COLLEGE STATION — An African cattle breed may have promise for use in U.S. cattle operations, the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station reports. Preliminary results of a study involving semen from two African breeds indicates that one of them, the Tuli, could improve carcass traits, said Dr. Jim Sanders, a professor of animal science at Texas… Read More →