Contact: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION Toro Company has given a $73,000 grant to Texas A&M University’s turfgrass program to support undergraduate activities and research, officials said Tuesday. Texas A&M is one of seven land-grant universities to receive grant support on a recurring basis in the form of irrigation, equipment and monetary donation. [...]
LUBBOCK The Texas Department of Agriculture awarded more than $280,000 to cotton research in the state during a Sept. 10 ceremony at Lubbock. Commissioner of Agriculture Todd Staples announced more than $1.2 million in grants to five Texas universities to fund 39 research projects designed to “bolster and enhance the state’s food and fiber [...]
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Will Hatler, 254-968-4144, wlhatler@ag.tamu.edu FORT STOCKTON – Persons interested in the future of the Pecos River are asked to give input to a draft plan aimed at improving the river and its watershed. The Pecos River Basin Assessment Program authored the document now available for public review and comment. [...]
HOUSTON- Texas Cooperative Extension in Harris County will offer pesticide applicator training on managing pastures and meadows from 3:30-9 p.m., Sept. 14 in the Extension auditorium, 3033 Bear Creek Drive. Topics to be presented are: – “Integrated Toxic Plant Management,” Dr. Catherine Barr, Texas Veterinary Medicine Diagnostic Laboratory toxicologist; – “Plant Identification – A Primer [...]
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608,skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jackie Rudd, 806-677-5600,jcrudd@ag.tamu.edu AMARILLO – Wheat breeders are working to put a ‘little muscle’ into bread, in addition to helping producers get better yields, said a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. Bread producers need stronger gluten flours, said Dr. Jackie Rudd, Experiment Station state wheat breeder in Amarillo. Gluten [...]
Writer: Mike Jackson, 972-952-9232,mcjackson@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. James McAfee, 972-231-5362,JMcAfee@ag.tamu.edu DALLAS – Winter weeds might be out of sight and out of mind, but now is the time to think about applying pre-emergent herbicides to lawns, according to a Texas Cooperative Extension expert. September is the best time to apply the herbicides before the weed seeds [...]
Writer: Robert Burns, (903) 834-6191,rd-burns@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Ray Smith, (903) 834-6191,g-smith@tamu.edu OVERTON – Rio Verde lablab, a recently released forage legume by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, could provide some relief to nitrogen fertilizer cost-shock. Not only does it not require nitrogen fertilizer, Rio Verde lablab is found palatable by both cattle and wildlife, said [...]
Writers: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259,b-fannin@tamu.edu Edith Chenault, 979-845-2886,e-chenault1@tamu.edu Paul Schattenberg, 210-467-6575,paschattenberg@ag.tamu.edu Contacts: Dr. Carl Anderson, 979-845-8011,canderso@ag.tamu.edu Jose Pena, 830-278-9151,jg-pena@tamu.edu Larry Stein, 830-278-9151,larrystein@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – From watermelons left rotting in the field to flooded cotton and grain sorghum, record rains this spring and summer have resulted in $200 million in agriculture losses in South Texas, Texas [...]
Writer: Tim W. McAlavy, 806-746-6101,t-mcalavy@tamu.edu Contact: Miles Dabovich, 940-716-8610,m-dabovich@tamu.edu WICHITA FALLS - Somewhere between putting grain in the bin after harvest and putting seed in the drill for planting, Texas wheat producers should pay attention to seed quality, said a Texas Cooperative Extension agent. “During the past two years wheat farmers have dealt with record-setting drought, heavy [...]
Audio Script NACOGDOCHES Some people might call them “piecemeal” farms: small operations of 50 acres or less. But small acreage operations are not just thrown-together farms. They are more often highly diverse operations and compose about 33 percent of all farms and ranches in Texas, said a Texas Cooperative Extension agent. “What [...]
