COLLEGE STATION — The meat industry’s constant quest for tenderness could benefit with just a touch, says a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station scientist working with a promising automatic meat-grading technology. The “touch” is elastography, a new form of ultrasonic measurement developed for the medical field. It could also have important implications for beef, pork and…
Writer: Kathleen Davis Phillips, (979) 845-2872, ka-phillips@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Suresh Pillai, (915) 859-9111 EL PASO — Disease-causing microbes lurking in water, soil and food now may be more easily found, says a scientist who developed new molecular detection methods. Dr. Suresh Pillai, an environmental microbiologist at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, devised methods to genetically…
COLLEGE STATION — When they dealt out CARDS in 1991, a Texas A&M University System research and education team had no idea their action would create such big winners. CARDS, or Computer-Assisted Retail Decision Support, is software that is helping break a $4 billion logjam in the beef industry by encouraging retailers to buy more…
COLLEGE STATION — On the plains, in the mountains and through the jungles of Colombia, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers think they can find bovine genetic material that may help improve the Texas cattle industry. At the same time, they hope to help Colombia preserve some of its natural heritage and transfer valuable technology to…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
