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The Rio Grande as it flows through Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend. Rio Grande water integral to Texas irrigation; high salinity changing agricultural landscape Chantal Cough-Schulze | Apr 21, 2021 The increasing salinity of the Rio Grande is a real problem for agricultural producers. Experts from Texas A&M AgriLife Research are studying this problem to provide options and advice for those who rely on this water source. The Rio Grande has made agriculture possible in South and West Texas ...

As Aggie Muster approaches, family members and friends are reflecting on the lives and legacies of the loved ones they have lost. A live stream of Aggie Muster will be held on Wednesday, April 21 at 7 p.m. in Kyle Field and online. Since the founding of Texas A&M, every Aggie who has lived and died has remained a part of the Aggie Spirit. Muster celebrates that spirit, and although the tradition has changed through the years, its purpose remains to honor the Aggies lost from the past year and b...

  (Lamar, COLO.) – Lamar Community College (LCC) students are eligible for a whole host of scholarships to help pay for their education — they just need to take the plunge and apply. Incoming and current LCC students are encouraged to access the college’s online scholarship application, the Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges’ (FCCC) application, and links to several other local and state scholarships available. There is a mix of need and merit-based scholarships for all types ...

MANSFIELD — An innovative and influential farmer near Mansfield has been named the 2020 News-Gazette Farm Leader. Ken Dalenberg has traveled the world through his work on international soybean organizations and has been an early adopter for the current wave of precision ag equipment, helping test products and tech for everyone from top manufacturers to California startups. He’s also helped countless researchers at the University of Illinois, running different trials on the farm heâ€...

Listen to this article Will Glazik, a fifth-generation farmer from rural Paxton, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Glen “GB” Brandt Prize for Ag Entrepreneurism. The award is designed to honor an individual who exemplifies an entrepreneurial spirit and advances innovation through his or her business practices. Glazik’s nomination highlighted those qualities as a farmer, researcher, public speaker, distillery owner and entrepreneur. “Will is blazing a trail for a...

Facebook Genome sequenced for pesky pumpkin pathogen Pumpkin growers dread the tiny tan scabs that form on their fruit, each lesion a telltale sign of bacterial spot disease. Post to Facebook Genome sequenced for pesky pumpkin pathogen Pumpkin growers dread the tiny tan scabs that form on their fruit, each lesion a telltale sign of bacterial spot disease. Check out this story on FarmersAdvance.com: https://www.farmersadvance.com/story/news/2021/04/07/genome-sequenced-pesky-pumpkin-pathogen/7...

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service is partnering with the Texas Grain Sorghum Association to provide two series of regional updates for Texas sorghum farmers utilizing an online format. The effort is led by AgriLife Extension agronomists Calvin Trostle, Lubbock, and Ronnie Schnell, Bryan-College Station, both in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences. Schnell said they are dividing Texas in two regional updates so each can be tailored to the needs of each regions sorghum growers. �...

Fresh, spent grounds have various uses in gardening, housekeeping, self-care, more While there are uses for organic waste from every level of the coffee chain, the variety of uses for fresh and spent grounds seem to be limited only by the imagination, said Texas A&M AgriLife experts. Composting     Probably the most popular and practical use of spent coffee grounds is as a garden soil amendment and for composting. “Used coffee grounds can add a small amount of nitrogen to your soil o...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Using a chronosequence of corn lines, University of Illinois researchers found decades of breeding and reliance on chemical fertilizers prevents modern corn from recruiting nitrogen-fixing microbes. view more  Credit: Alonso Favela, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Corn didnt start out as the powerhouse crop it is today. No, for most of the thousands of years it was undergoing domestication and improvement, corn grew humbly within the limits of what the environmen...

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo Ultra-dwarf grass under a light snow covering. Experts will be monitoring the turfgrass response in the coming weeks. Expect some damage, but snowfall may have saved many grasses Many Texans are wondering how their turfgrass will respond come spring after Mother Nature unleashed the recent arctic snap across southern regions unaccustomed to such freezing temperatures. The low temperatures experienced in many parts of Texas rival...