Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Dirk Hays, 979-458-0032, dbhays@neo.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Wax build-up is not always a bad thing, according to a Texas A&M University soil and crop scientist. Dr. Dirk Hays, associate professor of cereal grain developmental genetics, has been researching leaf wax, it’s variability in different genetic wheat lines and [...]
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Justin Ng, 979-845-5322, justin.ng@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Justin Ng graduated from Texas A&M University on Aug. 10, but before he did, he took a trip this summer that may alter his future career. As a post-doctorate research associate in the soil and crop sciences department at Texas [...]
Dr. Ron Randel receives prestigious award in animal science Writer: Robert Burns, 903-834-6191, rd-burns@tamu.edu OVERTON — Dr. Ron Randel, an East Texas scientist with Texas AgriLife Research, has received one of most prestigious awards given for animal science research. Randel, who is based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Overton, was [...]
Developers recognized with Norman Hudson Memorial Award Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan, 979-845-5069, r-srinivasan@tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION – When Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan, director of the Texas A&M University Spatial Sciences Laboratory, and Dr. Jeff Arnold, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service at Temple, developed a water assessment tool almost [...]
EDINBURG – Vidal Saenz is gearing up for his busy time of year, mid-August through December, when farmers and ranchers come to his office for help in applying for federal agricultural loans. As part of the Small Farm Outreach Training and Technical Assistance Program, Saenz serves all four counties of the Lower Rio Grande Valley [...]
Scientists agree on collaboration, coffee-variety sharing LONDON — A cadre of scientists representing coffee-producing countries throughout the world recently gathered in London for a technical meeting on initial efforts to be conducted under the banner of World Coffee Research. World Coffee Research is funded by the global coffee industry, guided by producers and implemented by [...]
ASTANA, Kazakhstan – Veterinary diagnosticians, technicians and inspectors from the Republic of Kazakhstan received advanced training in molecular methods, biosafety measures and diagnostic epidemiology during a recent two-day workshop here, led by the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense. The workshop trained nine diagnosticians and technicians from the Kazakhstan Veterinary Reference Laboratory, [...]
Honor presented for Junior Master Gardener program efforts in Central America SAN ANTONIO — The Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture, part of the Texas A&M University System, has been presented the Program Partner of the Year Award by the Junior Master Gardener program for its work in Central America. The award was presented during [...]
ALMA, South Africa – A former Texas AgriLife Extension Service county agent is now farm manager for the Ukulima Farm Research Center in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Bob Whitney, who retired as an AgriLife Extension agent for agriculture for Williamson County and had previous agency positions in different counties, has been at the [...]
April 3, 2012 By: Paul Schattenberg, 210-467-6575, paschattenberg@ag.tamu.edu COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Steve Whisenant, who for the past nine years has served as head of the ecosystem science and management department at Texas A&M University in College Station, has recently taken on a new position in the world’s newest nation – South Sudan. Whisenant recently [...]
