Modern life is fast-paced. People are busy; time slips away like vapor. Ten-thousand distractions keep us from noticing the common things that sustain life. Air, water and soil are taken for granted and yet we cannot live without them. Each is part of the equation from which life springs.
Whether served in pies or cobblers, shakes and ice cream or eaten straight from a roadside fruit stand, peach lovers in Texas owe much of their delight to Texas A&M AgriLife’s Stone Fruit Breeding and Genetic program.
Four projects funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative will combine the expertise of Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service to provide livestock producer support and increase the use of conservation princip…
The stewards of Texas’ working lands have spoken.
Jim Sanders, senior professor of animal breeding and genetics, may be retiring, but he will continue to make waves in the livestock industry for many more years to come for two reasons – his love for his students and their respect for him.
Corn acres are expected to increase nationally this season, while planted acres in Texas are expected to decline, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Soil moisture conditions around much of the state improved slightly over recent weeks, and there is hope that drought conditions might break in time to plant row crops and enough to sustain them to harvest, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
Soil moisture conditions around much of the state improved slightly over recent weeks, and there is hope that drought conditions might break in time to plant row crops and enough to sustain them to harvest, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts.
High school students who will be industry leaders in the future are addressing “wicked problems” of today as a part of the first year of the Norman Borlaug Youth in Agriculture Program, NBYAP, through the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
The 69th annual Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, the largest event of its kind in the nation, dates are set for Aug. 7-9 and registration is open. More than 1,900 cattle producers are expected to come to the Texas A&M University campus.
ater has always been a precious commodity, and drought conditions in parts of the Midwest over the past two years have pushed cow-calf producers to get inventive when it comes to water availability.
Generations ago, people widely planted the Kentucky-31 variety of tall fescue in pastures. The hardy grass produced good volume and fought tenaciously against drought, and was even called the “wonder grass.”
Developing heifers takes time, patience and a good plan.
Generations ago, people widely planted the Kentucky-31 variety of tall fescue in pastures. The hardy grass produced good volume and fought tenaciously against drought, and was even called the “wonder grass.”
Developing heifers takes time, patience and a good plan.
This spring semester marked the beginning of a unique course opportunity for students within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to explore wildlife conservation through the lens of a multifaceted practice that has sustained humans for millennia and is foundational to …
This spring semester marked the beginning of a unique course opportunity for students within the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to explore wildlife conservation through the lens of a multifaceted practice that has sustained humans for millennia and is foundational to …
Researchers with the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, a unit of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and others recently published Rangeland Carbon Markets, a de…
Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network today announced FBN Livestock has partnered with Boveta Nutrition to deliver a proprietary feeding system for beef cattle that improves feed efficiency and carcass yield while reducing methane gas emissio…
With a heart for assisting people and animals, becoming a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Disaster Assessment and Recovery, DAR, agent fulfilled a passion for Bryan Davis.
The Behavioral Plasticity Research Institute at Texas A&M is researching an insect that has plagued humans for thousands of years – locusts.
Texas strawberry growers expect better yields and quality following back-to-back disappointing seasons, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Snakes, whether we like them or fear them, are becoming more active this time of year and activity will increase as spring temperatures climb.
The Texas A&M McGregor Research Center will host a field day on May 18 at 773 Ag Farm Road, McGregor. The event will start at 8:30 a.m. with onsite registration and will conclude at 3 p.m.
A Ranch-Raised Beef Conference will be hosted on June 1-2 in College Station by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Animal Science.
LINCOLN, Neb. — America’s cattle sector could benefit greatly by adopting a set standard for proficiency levels in animal care and handling. University of Nebraska scientist Ruth Woiwode, drawing on her expertise in animal behavior, is working to address that challenge.
I’m going to hop up on a soapbox for a second, it’s not something I normally do. I have worked at this paper for over 20 years now, and I have seen some things. I am one of the few people that is actually in advertising but also have a toe in the editorial side as well. In my times here, I h…
A lone longhorn, Dante, traveled from Austin all the way to Aggieland to have his horns saved by Texas A&M veterinarians. Luckily, they didn’t have to “saw em’ off,” as the saying goes in the known rivalry between Texas A&M Aggies and the University of Texas Longhorns.
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