Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Brent Auvermann, 806-677-5600, b-auvermann@tamu.edu AMARILLO – Dr. Brent Auvermann of Amarillo has been selected by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers as the G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award winner for 2013, according to Darrin Drollinger, executive director for the organization. Initiated in 1975, the award was [...]
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Zach Wilcox, 325-236-6912, s-wilcox@tamu.edu SWEETWATER – Oil and gas leasing will be the topic of discussion during a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service meeting set for 6 p.m. Nov. 19 on the third floor of the Nolan County Courthouse in Sweetwater. “Heightened activity in the ‘oil patch’ here is [...]
Monitoring forest health important to economic, environmental viability Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Sorin Popescu, 979-862-2614, s-popescu@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – The old adage “you can’t see the forest for the trees” might mean more to Dr. Sorin Popescu than most people. Popescu, a Texas A&M University associate professor in the department of ecosystem [...]
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Bill McCutchen sees the potential for the southeast to become the ‘Saudi Arabia’ for production of dedicated energy crops. “It’s the Bioenergy Belt,” said McCutchen, executive associate director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, at the Growing Texas Conference held in College Station recently. Attendees heard from [...]
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, b-fannin@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Experts at a conference addressing water and energy in Texas collectively agreed the state’s water needs will grow exponentially over the next decade, fueled by a “business-friendly” environment attracting more people to the Lone Star state. But unsolved is how to fund the proposed $53.1 billion state [...]
COLLEGE STATION – A team of researchers that has been working on getting fuel-grade oil out of algae may be within four years of a near-commercial-scale production level. The team, with a combined expertise from agriculture to engineering, has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to help hasten the process, according to Dr. [...]
AgriLife Research scientist will study economic policies for clean energy Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Jianbang Gan, 979-862-4392, j-gan@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Knowing how bioenergy industry development will impact local and national economies is the focus of two studies being conducted by Dr. Jianbang Gan, a professor in forest management and economics in [...]
Soil and crop department shares soil fertility, stress-tolerant cultivar research Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Russ Jessup, 979-315-4242, rjessup@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Everything from emerging research into grass-fed cattle and forages, to soil fertility work attracted Gareth Davies, a Nuffield Farming Scholar from South Wales, U.K., to visit Texas A&M University’s soil and [...]
Call for abstracts deadline is Sept. 14 DENVER — A national conference on the environmental impacts of poultry and livestock production is calling for abstracts, and not just from professional scientists, but from farmers and other agricultural innovators too, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service engineer. The Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center will host [...]
Expert: Health of private woodlands doesn’t happen by accident Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu OVERTON – Many people living in urban areas – Houston, Dallas and others — who own a little slice of woodland may think they don’t need to be concerned about managing for drought, wildfire, pests or forest diseases. But healthy woodlands [...]
