Blair Fannin

Blair Fannin provides executive/internal communications support for Texas A&M AgriLife and is Public Information Officer for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Disaster Assessment and Recovery unit.

All posts by Blair Fannin

closeup of a corn leafhopper. it is brownish in color with two black spots between its eyes

November 1, 2024

Corn leafhopper reemerging in Texas, other states

Yield losses, potential red stunt disease cause growers concern

October 9, 2024

Q&A: Tackling the red flour beetle

AgriLife Extension experts provide education, answers about invasive pest

September 5, 2024

Alternative crops offer options when weather doesn’t cooperate

Texas Crop and Weather Report

Green rice trail fields in Beaumont, Texas. A worker stands in the fields with several grain silos in the background.

July 30, 2024

Texas rice outlook still questionable after Hurricane Beryl

Texas Crop and Weather Report

July 19, 2024

AgriLife Extension assesses Hurricane Beryl agricultural losses

Matagorda, Wharton, Harris, Brazoria, Fort Bend counties on disaster focus list

July 8, 2024

AgriLife Extension responds to Tropical Storm Beryl

Agency’s Disaster Assessment and Recovery unit assets, personnel prepared to enter storm zone

July 3, 2024

Hurricane preparedness for families

Start now with a plan, assemble hurricane 'go bag'

Disaster agents loading supplies on trailer.

May 17, 2024

AgriLife Extension Disaster Assessment and Recovery establishes flood damage operation in Coldspring

Agents work from base to provide flood damage assessments 

Texas A&M University logo

May 9, 2024

Recovery resources available for Texas livestock producers, individuals affected by floods

Rural homeowners need to test water wells before using

May 7, 2024

Rainfall setting up favorable Texas hay prospects

Texas Crop and Weather Report – May 7, 2024

May 6, 2024

Preliminary Texas Panhandle wildfire agriculture losses top $123 million, costliest in state history

Fence damage, lost grazing, livestock deaths encompass totals

A flooded field behind a barbed wire fence

May 3, 2024

Prolonged heavy rainfall causing flooding, livestock safety concerns

AgriLife Extension Disaster Assessment and Recovery experts poised to help, offer flood response tips

A Hereford cattle's nose and head is covered in black ash and soot from the Smokehouse Creek Fire.

February 28, 2024

Texas Panhandle wildfires: Documenting agricultural losses

Cattle stranded after hurricane tidal surge

January 26, 2024

Texas ranchers urged to remove livestock from low-lying areas

Flooded rice field

December 13, 2023

Finding the ‘goldilocks’ zone or conditions in rice irrigation

New Texas A&M AgriLife study examines wet, dry growing system

November 20, 2023

Bridging the agricultural science communications gap

Texas A&M AgriLife to create national education network

November 16, 2023

Digital agriculture, genetics, forages featured at Beeville station field day

November 16, 2023

Digital agriculture, genetics, forages featured at Beeville station field day

$25,000 gift to AgriLife Research by Albert Lowry ’78 to fund forage research at Beeville

November 6, 2023

Elliot receives national FFA honor

October 30, 2023

Building a veterinarian recruitment toolbox for rural Texas

Texas A&M AgriLife Research seeks to fill gaps in veterinary service