‘Tis poinsettia season at Texas Tech. In the coming weeks the school’s Horticulture Society students will be selling the red holiday Christmas plants. The cost of the poinsettias, which are about 18-inches tall, is $15 each. more »
The economic wallop of Texas peanut products is getting an aerial boost this season from Texas Tech University. Researchers are using a special airborne multispectral remote sensing system on an experimental peanut crop in nearby Brownfield, a small farming community. more »
Texas Tech University’s Livestock Judging Team edged out the Aggies by four points to take first place and the national title Tuesday at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville. This is the third year in a row that Tech has taken the national championship banner home to Lubbock. more »
Texas Tech University’s Meat Judging Team dismantled the competition over the weekend, walking away with first place and the national championship at the American Meat Science Association’s International Meat Judging Contest in Dakota City, Neb. more »
Texas Tech University has one of the nation’s distinguished agricultural education programs, according to a recent survey of professional colleagues within the discipline. Texas Tech’s Department of Agricultural Education and Communications ranked ninth, with faculty, range of programs and its communications program listed as its distinguishing features. more »
A nationally-recognized professor of agricultural economics at Texas Tech University has been awarded this year’s ‘Faculty Recognition Award’ from the school’s Mortar Board Senior National Honor Society and Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. more »
Ryan Rathmann, one of the nation’s leading livestock judging team coaches, has been named an assistant professor in Texas Tech University’s Department of Animal and Food Sciences. He began his teaching and research duties on Sept. 1. more »
Texas Tech University’s Agronomy Club held the top spot again at the Students of Agronomy, Soils, and Environmental Sciences (SASES) National Meeting, held Nov. 1-5 in Pittsburg. It’s the third year in a row for the Red Raiders to walk away as national champions. more »
Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources will honor three Texas leaders with the Gerald W. Thomas Outstanding Agriculturalist awards on Thursday (Nov. 5) during its annual Pig Roast, which honors scholarship donors, recipients and intercollegiate judging teams, at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Banquet Hall. more »
Researchers at Texas Tech University are working to discover the secrets of one of the state’s most perplexing water problems: the influence of climate change on Texas surface waters. A new three-year project, funded by $634,000 from the U.S. Geological Survey, will bring together a team of experts to learn how to model, study and predict the influence of the changes. more »
