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 »

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 »

The Texas wine industry has been growing slowly for a number of years, but in the last five to 10 years, it’s exploded. “The Southern High Plains is great for grape growing,” says Tom Thompson, chairman of Tech’s plant and soil science department.  more »

A leading research scientist from Texas Tech University’s Department of Plant and Soil Science and her team have been awarded a $200,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant to study how carbon cycles through large-scale agricultural systems.  more »

Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources hosted two agricultural experts from Thailand last week as part of a 25-year old program sponsored by the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service.

“Known as the Cochran Fellowship Program, it’s the first time that Texas Tech has been selected to host Cochran fellows in the area of food safety and security,”said Sukant Misra, professor and associate dean for Research College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.  more »

In an effort to stem the decline of Bobwhite Quail and Scaled Quail in Texas, the Quail-Tech Alliance and Texas Tech University have designated a 38-county research area in west central and northwest Texas, an area that encompasses more than 22 million acres or roughly 10 times the size of Yellowstone Park.  more »

U.S. farmers will see their prices slashed by an average 2.48 percent during the next five years. A recent subsidy increase for India’s cotton farmers could drop world cotton prices by as much as 6 percent, according to a report from Texas Tech University’s Cotton Economics Research Institute.  more »

Texas Tech University System Office of Technology Commercialization and Bayer CropScience have signed an exclusive licensing agreement to utilize a new cotton technology from the university’s International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology.  more »

In the 1860s Spanish missionaries began cultivating grapes near present day El Paso. In 1883, Frank Qualia founded the Val Verde Winery in Del Rio, the oldest bonded winery still in operation today. Texas viticulturist Thomas Munson is credited with saving the European wine industry.  more »

An exclusive licensing agreement to utilize a new cotton technology from Texas Tech University’s International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology has been inked by the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization and Bayer CropScience.  more »