Peanut oil powered the world’s first diesel engine when it was premiered by Rudolf Diesel at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900. Now, a collaboration between Chevron and Texas A&M AgriLife is reviving the use of peanuts as a renewable feedstock...
20-Jul-2022 1:30 PM EDT
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists are using artificial intelligence to set a new world record for producing algae as a reliable, economic source for biofuel that can be used as an alternative fuel source for jet aircraft and other...
14-Mar-2022 1:20 PM EDT
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Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics represent potentially monumental changes for agriculture’s future, and Azlan Zahid hopes his research will spearhead that evolution for urban farming.
18-Oct-2021 12:05 PM EDT
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With crops, farmers will adapt — they always have and always will. To help this adaptation, however, a Texas A&M AgriLife research project has used artificial intelligence modeling to determine what traits cultivars will need to be successful...
18-Oct-2021 11:05 AM EDT
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From carbon sequestration to greenhouse gas emissions to cover crops, this fall a team of Texas A&M AgriLife faculty and others will begin evaluating the impacts of regenerative agriculture in semi-arid ecoregions in Texas and Oklahoma.
7-Oct-2021 4:25 PM EDT
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Kevin Conway, Ph.D., is among a team of three who have discovered and classified a fish that has been swimming in the tanks of neuroscientists for years.
5-Oct-2021 2:15 PM EDT
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More than 10 million people worldwide have Parkinson’s disease, which is progressively debilitating and, at present, incurable. Now, Texas A&M AgriLife researchers have found a new way to study the disorder’s progression on a molecular level....
5-Oct-2021 1:55 PM EDT
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Rangelands in the Great Plains, and the ranchers who depend on them, are losing battles against an invasion of brush and shrubs on historical grasslands.
24-Sep-2021 3:05 PM EDT
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For those with backyard poultry, like chickens or ducks, a Texas A&M AgriLife expert encourages taking precautions against salmonella exposure as cases spike across the U.S.
24-Aug-2021 3:05 PM EDT
26-Aug-2020 3:55 PM EDT
The impacts of potential trade tariffs on crops such as soybeans would send ripple effects through other agricultural commodities, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economist.
15-May-2018 4:50 PM EDT
Texas A&M AgriLife research will collaborate with the Texas Department of Agriculture and the University of California at Davis on a project to help agricultural producers and consumers through improving nitrogen use efficiency and food safety in...
15-May-2018 4:40 PM EDT
Three women driving agricultural and ecological research in North Texas seek new solutions for sustainable urban and suburban living in 2018.
8-Mar-2018 2:05 PM EST
With the probability of extensive rain and high winds throughout much of the state from the resurgence of Tropical Depression Harvey, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts are asking Texans to take measures to prepare their houses, farms...
24-Aug-2017 3:15 PM EDT
Texas potato growers may be few in number, but their spuds hit a market window that brings a premium each year at harvest. Now, a new potato scientist for Texas A&M AgriLife Research plans to pack even more value into the commodity through...
23-Aug-2017 4:05 PM EDT
Today’s news is flooded with reports on Zika; none of them good…until now.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research has fielded a Zika team led by two scientists who joined the department of entomology at Texas A&M University.
2-Sep-2016 2:05 PM EDT
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Texas Crop and Weather Report – June 6, 2023 Texas watermelon production is expected to be average with b...
06 Jun 2023
Learn the symptoms associated with heat-related illnesses, like heat stroke and heat exhaustion During the ...
06 Jun 2023
Online program provides valuable tips for meeting fish production goals Pond owners can learn effective, sc...
06 Jun 2023
AgriLife Extension expert provides tips to restore turfgrass Drought and harsh winter weather has taken a t...
05 Jun 2023
Soil management, hemp production, weed control topics to be featured Blackland producers will learn more ab...
05 Jun 2023
Residents who participate can reduce system failures, increase regional water quality The Lampasas River Wa...
05 Jun 2023
Block party set on June 11 The Better Living for Texans, BLT, program of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extensi...
02 Jun 2023
50th annual Sheep and Goat Field Day set morning of Aug. 18 The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’...
02 Jun 2023
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension specialists and industry experts to speak The 13th annual Central Texas St...
02 Jun 2023
Free event offers continuing education units The West Side Turn Row meeting will be held June 15 in Crawfor...
01 Jun 2023
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