COLLEGE STATION — More than $6 million has been spent since 1988 battling deadly oak wilt disease in Texas, but foresters estimate that $60 million worth of trees have been saved. The Oak Wilt Suppression Project, handled by the Texas Forest Service, pits seven foresters full-time against googols of fungus spores that stick to the…
LUBBOCK — Aphids coming to feast on cotton plants on the High Plains this season may find the humidity in this normally dry climate truly unbearable. Scientists are hoping that a fine mist from a sprinkler system will help fend off damaging early season insects at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Halfway. If all…
COLLEGE STATION — A controversial method for using water to help avoid grain elevator explosions should not be banned by the federal government, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher says. Dr. Calvin Parnell, an experiment station researcher and professor in the Texas A&M University agricultural engineering department, testified before Congress in October that using water…
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…
