Agency: Texas AgriLife Research

AgriLife Research: Groundwater challenges emerging around Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex

Future groundwater availability, quality dependent on conservation efforts Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Srinivasulu Ale, 940-552-9941, sriniale@ag.tamu.edu Dr. Sriroop Chaudhuri, 940-552-9941, schaudhuri@ag.tamu.edu   VERNON – Two Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists recently completed an evaluation of groundwater resources in the Trinity and Woodbine aquifers under the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and published their findings in an [...]

Lampasas River Watershed riparian workshop set May 2

Watershed includes parts of Mills, Hamilton, Lampasas, Coryell, Burnet, Bell and Williamson counties OAKALLA — The Lampasas River Watershed Partnership will host a one-day “Proper Functioning Condition Riparian” workshop May 2 at the Oakalla Community Center, 29111 Farm-to-Market Road 963 in Oakalla. The watershed encompasses parts of Mills, Hamilton, Lampasas, Coryell, Burnet, Bell and Williamson [...]

Texas A&M aquaculture facility celebrates 40 years of service

Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Delbert Gatlin, 979-847-9333, d-gatlin@tamu.edu   COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the department of wildlife and fisheries sciences at Texas A&M University are celebrating the 40 year anniversary of their aquaculture facility and its recently completed pond complex renovation. The 40-acre Aquacultural Research and Teaching Facility [...]

Body condition score modeling system part of broodmare equine research

Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Clay Cavinder, 979-458-2927, cac@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Assigning beef cattle body condition scores has been a common practice among producers for years to evaluate nutritional needs, and such a system for horse owners developed at Texas A&M University more than 30 years ago has been expanded. A group [...]

Beef cattle researchers explore nutritional strategies to time puberty in replacement heifers

Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu Contacts: Dr. Marcel Amstalden, 979-845-3597, m.amstalden@tamu.edu Dr. Gary Williams, 361-358-6390, glwilliams@tamu.edu BEEVILLE – Cattle producers typically wean replacement heifers at seven months of age and raise them with limited nutritional input before their first breeding. This managerial strategy is often associated with delayed puberty, particularly in tropically-adapted Bos indicus-influenced cattle, [...]

Training May 22 in Fredericksburg will focus on Pedernales River

Texas Watershed Steward program to address water quality, availability FREDERICKSBURG – A Texas Watershed Steward workshop on water quality and availability issues related to the Pedernales River will be 8 a.m.-4 p.m. May 22 at the Hill Country University Center, 2818 East U.S. Highway 290 in Fredericksburg. The no-cost training is open to anyone interested [...]

Watershed modeling workshop set for May 7-8 in College Station

Program will focus on load duration curves and land-use analysis tool COLLEGE STATION — The Texas Water Resources Institute and Texas A&M University   department of biological and agricultural engineering will present a watershed modeling workshop May 7-8 at the Horticulture/Forest Science Building on the Texas A&M campus in College Station. The institute is part of [...]

From horticulture to foreign policy: Davies to serve as Jefferson Science Fellow

           COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Fred Davies, a Texas A&M University horticulturist, will spend the 2013-2014 school year as a Jefferson Science Fellow assisting the U.S. government with foreign policy.            Davies begins his 12-month fellowship in mid-August working in food security and international agriculture at the U.S. Department of State and [...]

Much of Texas wheat crop escapes major freeze damage, areas of concern still remain

Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jackie Rudd, 806-677-5600, jcrudd@ag.tamu.edu Dr. Travis Miller, 979-845-4808,td-miller@tamu.edu AMARILLO – The High Plains and Rolling Plains wheat crop appear to have escaped major damage from the March 24-25 freezing temperatures that dipped into the teens and mid-20s, but the Blackland region might not have, according to Texas A&M [...]