Category: News
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Texas A&M AgriLife reopens research and extension facilities at Vernon
Texas A&M AgriLife reopened several upgraded facilities in Vernon, including office, laboratory and storage spaces, which sustained damage from a tornado in May 2022.
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Texas A&M AgriLife releases cover crop grazing guidance
Producers in the Southern Great Plains looking to boost soil health on their lands while earning added income from livestock grazing can now access new guidance from Texas A&M AgriLife experts. Get the fact sheets
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Professional society names Ale Texas Agricultural Engineer of the Year
Srinivasulu Ale, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Research agrohydrologist at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Vernon, has been named the 2024 Agricultural Engineer of the Year by the Texas section of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, ASABE.
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Texas A&M AgriLife to develop market for high-oil peanuts
The growing market for peanuts isn’t in candy bars or sports stadiums but in cooking oil and renewable fuel. A Texas A&M AgriLife team is exploring avenues to help develop this new pipeline for producing high-oil peanuts.
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Crossing a new frontier in hardy hibiscus breeding
Novel coral-flowering hibiscus hybrid developed by Texas A&M AgriLife Research breeder After the breakthrough achievements of creating blue and maroon flower colors in hardy hibiscus, Texas A&M AgriLife plant physiologist and breeder Dariusz Malinowski, Ph.D., has now developed the first-ever coral-colored hibiscus. The coral-colored hibiscus is the latest creation from what started as a hobby for Malinowski…
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Texas A&M AgriLife’s public breeding program releases new wheat, triticale varieties
Increase in seed production from Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed to potentially reach farmers in 2024 Two new wheat varieties and a new triticale variety are headed to farmers in the fall of 2024, according to an announcement by Texas A&M AgriLife and the Texas A&M Wheat Improvement Program. Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat breeders Jackie Rudd, Ph.D.,…
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Repairing tornado damage takes time, but research, outreach continue
Texas A&M AgriLife ensures facilities at Vernon are operational, serving stakeholders Advancing the newest peanut varieties may take an extra year and this year’s peanut crop may not run through the new peanut sheller. But the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center and Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed at Vernon continue to serve their clients after a May…
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Tornado hits Texas A&M AgriLife facilities at Vernon
Cleanup underway through outpouring of community support Following a May 4 tornado, the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Vernon and Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed are finding comfort in community support from Vernon to Wichita Falls and from the entire Texas A&M AgriLife statewide network. The Texas A&M AgriLife properties in the community of Lockett, just south of…
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New Tamrun peanut varieties announced
Texas A&M AgriLife breeding program offers earlier-maturing, higher-yielding varieties The Texas A&M AgriLife Research peanut breeding program has announced the release of two new varieties, Tamrun OL18L and Tamrun OL19, for the West Texas and South Texas production regions. Both varieties are high-yielding, high-oleic, early maturing, runner-type peanuts, said Mark Burow, Ph.D., AgriLife Research peanut geneticist with…
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‘Brown-bagging’ crop seed affects producers as well as research advances
Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed increases promotion of certified seed As producers get back into their fields for a new season, Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed is stepping up its efforts to educate producers on the benefits of using certified seed and the legalities involved when “brown-bagging.” Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed, located near Vernon, is a…
