STEPHENVILLE — The Texas A&M University Research and Extension Center at Stephenville recently established the Southern Region Risk Management Education Center after receiving more than $1.1 million in grant funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Programs will focus on risk encountered in the full range of farming operations; specific projects will be designed to…
Writer: Blair Fannin, (979) 845-2259,b-fannin@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Bruce McCarl, (979) 845-1706,mccarl@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION - U.S. farmers who protect the environment could receive higher incomes despite producing less crops, according to a report in this week’s Science magazine. Two economists Dr. Bruce McCarl with the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, and Dr. Uwe Schneider at Iowa State University…
COLLEGE STATION Texas A&M University’s meat and poultry science programs have been ranked No. 1 in the nation by Meat&Poultry magazine. According to Chuck Jolley, publisher, the magazine “undertook the project to help bring attention to the excellent schools that are training the next generation of leaders in one of America’s most important industries.”…
The Texas A&M Aggie Rodeo alumni are currently in the process of raising $12,500 to fund a memorial scholarship that will honor Raymond “Shorty” Fuller ’43, a former member of the Aggie Rodeo Team. After the $12,500 in private donations is received, the College of Agriculture Development Council will match the funds in order to…
WESLACO – A citrus researcher in the Lower Rio Grande Valley has received two USDA grants totaling $1.4 million. One will fund research into how citrus helps prevent cancer; the other will establish programs to encourage minority youth to study agriculture and food science. Dr. Bhimu Patil, a physiologist at the Texas A&M-Kingsville Citrus Center…
AMARILLO –Texas Cooperative Extension’s popular Master Marketer education program will be returning to the Texas Panhandle in January, according to Dr. Steve Amosson, Extension farm management economist. “We’re looking for a few good marketers who wish to update their own skills, and individuals who will help their neighbors do the same,” he said. Nationally recognized,…
COLLEGE STATION – Scott Meis, director of research with the Canadian Tourism Commission, will discuss the state of the tourism industry and the tourism industry abroad following the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks. The presentation will be at 4 p.m. Monday in Room 109 of Francis Hall at Texas A&M University. It is presented by the…
OVERTON - There’s a vast potential for East Texas landowners to supplement their income through “nature tourism,” according to a rural economic development expert with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA). At a four-hour workshop on Nov. 15, residents of Cass County and surrounding counties will have an opportunity to learn how to develop nature…
BUSHLAND — With an exemplary 36-year career in research tucked under his belt , Dr. Arland D. Schneider, agricultural engineer with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, will retire Oct. 26 from the Conservation and Production Research Laboratory near Bushland. Schneider’s federal career actually spans 38 years, counting his military service as a first lieutenant in the…
COLLEGE STATION — The International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA) has named Morton Satin, head of Food and Agro-Industries for the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, as executive director of IAMA. Satin has been invited to be an adjunct professor in the department of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University beginning Jan. 1. “Morton…
