EL PASO — Breathe easy. New York City sludge spread on a ranch in windy West Texas isn’t stirring pathogens into the air, a new study has found. “The most important finding is that the population in Sierra Blanca is not being impacted by the sludge application,” said Dr. Suresh Pillai, environmental microbiologist at Texas…
COLLEGE STATION — Handling household maintenance problems, raising a garden or nurturing children can be a bilingual experience on the World Wide Web via “Publicaciones en Espanol” from the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. More than 220 fact sheets — many coupled with their English counterpart — have been translated, designed and placed on the Web…
AGNMORE now is supplying information for Discover-Texas, the state’s first commercial Internet site dedicated exclusively to Texas business, products and information. Discover-Texas offers a gateway to the Internet for Texas daily and weekly newspaper publishers as the industry migrates to online publishing of local news, according to Phillip Bell, telecommunications consultant and electronic publisher. Bell…
AUSTIN — Innovative modeling on several Oklahoma watersheds is paving the way for management of point and nonpoint sources of pollution. Dr. Dan Storm, an engineer with the Oklahoma State University biosystems and agricultural engineering department, said researchers hope to bridge the gap between modeling of point and nonpoint sources to learn how technology may…
AUSTIN — New permits being issued by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) for confined animal feeding operations are among the first in the nation to combine air and water quality protection regulations into one permitting system. The new regulations, which became effective in July, are designed to protect both air and water quality…
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…
ABILENE–A progress report on state and federal projects designed to help farmers and ranchers safeguard the nation’s water quality will be presented here May 30-June 1 at the Kiva Inn. Representatives of 11 federal and state agencies will report and participants will get a close look at the Seymour Aquifer Hydrologic Unit Area Project in…
HOUSTON — Spoons could one day replace needles as a way to administer vaccines to protect children against diarrheal diseases that kill millions each year in developing nations, researchers say. Scientists at Texas A&M University’s Institute for Biosciences and Technology (IBT) in Houston and Tulane University in New Orleans say laboratory animals fed genetically engineered…
COLLEGE STATION — Current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for feedyard dust are too high, and that could cost the Texas feedyard industry thousands of dollars in pollution fees that it doesn’t deserve, according to a preliminary study recently conducted at Texas A&M University. Annual dust emissions from feedyards studied by Texas A&M scientists accounted…
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…
