AgriLife
Wheat curl mite might require non-chemical control
Three AgriLife Research scientists, working under Dr. Charlie Rush in plant pathology and Dr. Jerry Michels in entomology, are taking a close look at the…
AgriLife Research drip irrigation project yields promising results
Subsurface drip irrigation was able to produce up to four bales of cotton per acre with less water than conventional irrigation methods at the Texas AgriLife…
Texas researchers provide emissions data for livestock industry
The EPA issued a final ruling on Dec. 18 that required the reporting of continuous air releases of these gases by large confined animal feeding operations to…
Plums poised to give blueberries run for the money
Plums are rolling down the food fashion runway sporting newly discovered high levels of healthy nutrients, say scientists at Texas AgriLife Research.Plainly,…
New hybrid plants could prompt more prodigious pepper production in Southwest
But while U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show consumption of fresh peppers at an all-time high, only a fraction of these are grown domestically. Currently more than 70 percent of all fresh peppers consumed in the U.S. are imported from Mexico, and another 18 percent are imported from Canada, according to USDA data. …
Cattle fed distiller's grains maintain flavor and tenderness of beef
While much of the research focus has been on the energy value of the distiller's grains relative to the corn it replaces, recent questions have been posed on…