Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: James Grichar, (512) 293-6326 YOAKUM — Fungus in soils can cause peanut diseases that trim as much as $40 million off the Texas crop, but growers now have a new tool to fight the common ailments. “Field studies with Moncut at two to four pounds per acre…
Contact: Dr. Ron Kaiser, (979) 845-5303, rkaiser@rpts.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — Landowners assume less liability than many may think for recreational accidents on their land, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station expert says. “Our nationwide assessment of rural landowners’ liability suggests the legal threat to landowners is probably exaggerated and should not be a major concern,” said…
Dr. Larry Boleman, (979) 845-2051COLLEGE STATION — Changing cattle diets now will stop illness from a poisonous fungus currently affecting several South Central Texas pastures, officials with Texas A&M University said. Toxicology experts at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory determined from grass samples — some of which had been ingested by animals that later…
COLLEGE STATION — Changing cattle diets now will stop illness from a poisonous fungus currently affecting several South Central Texas pastures, officials with Texas A&M University said. Toxicology experts at the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory determined from grass samples — some of which had been ingested by animals that later died — that the…
Writer: Stacey Fehlis, (409) 862-1556 Contact: Dr. Hongbin Zhang, (409) 862-4787 Dr. Rod Wing, (409) 862-2244 COLLEGE STATION — The Rockefeller Foundation will provide $120,000 to Texas A&M University for research on the construction and characterization of rice large insert DNA libraries and their uses in cloning genes. Dr. Hongbin Zhang, assistant research scientist, and…
Writer: Joe Bryant, (806) 746-6101 Contact: Kater Hake, (806) 746-6101 LUBBOCK–Lack of rainfall and a declining water table pose problems for cotton growers on the Texas High Plains as they begin preparing their fields for planting. Some 6.4 million acres of cotton are expected to be planted in Texas this year, with some 4 million…
COLLEGE STATION — It may be said a lot, but the small producer can diversify and survive in a world of multi-million dollar agricultural corporations, according to one cattle producer from Garden City, Kan. “I’m a champion of the little guy,” said Lee Reeve of Reeve Cattle Co. “We function in a world of the…
Writer: Joe Bryant,(806)746-6101 Contact: Kater Hake, (806) 746-6101 LUBBOCK — Cotton growers on the Texas South Plains, an area that annually produces about half the state’s cotton and 20 percent to 25 percent of the nation’s crop, are rapidly winding up an unusual season with a more usual scenario: Good news-bad news. For many, the…
COLLEGE STATION — With U.S.-Mexico trade increasing, the old problem of “Texas fever” has become new again — but Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers hope to see another happy ending to the latest version of the story. “I think there will be a variety of solutions that will come about. But we are being challenged…
COLLEGE STATION — As market research goes, the Beef Customer Satisfaction research project recently finished by Texas A&M University is like a freezer full of meat: its contents won’t be digested all at once. It could, however, help sell more of a commodity that has lost ground in the past two decades to other meats….
