A new study by Texas Tech University and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension found that crop production has a substantial overall impact on employment and the economy in the Texas High Plains region. The most recent data shows that crop production on the South Plains supported more than 103,000 jobs and generated more than $12.2 billion in economic activity in 2010. more »
Texas Tech graduate student Mary Hunt has been selected as an International Livestock Congress-USA Student Travel Fellow. As part of the honor the Yukon, Okla., native will receive a scholarship to travel to Denver for the International Livestock Congress in January. more »
Three years into a five-year project aimed at stemming a massive decline of quail in Texas, researchers with a conservation alliance based at Texas Tech University are finding that last year’s blistering drought didn’t help that rescue effort one bit. more »
Among the items approved at the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents meeting was the granting of tenure to an agronomist from the university’s Department of Plant and Soil Science. Charles ‘Chuck’ West, who serves as the Thornton Distinguished Professor of Forages, was granted the academic classification, bringing the total of full-time tenured faculty at Tech to 726. more »
Jim Graham’s career has come full circle. Before the Texas Tech agricultural science grad (’63 BS) joined global agribusiness leader Monsanto in 1966 as a research specialist, he worked on cotton-related projects at Lubbock’s Texas Agricultural Experiment Station as a Texas Tech undergraduate. more »
The 2008 farm bill, which provides funding for a variety of nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamps), as well as payments to farmers and agricultural programs, technically expired on Sunday (Sept. 30). And the lack of congressional action has left a certain degree of uncertainty across the South Plains farm belt, since Congress won’t meet again until after the elections. more »
The dean of Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources has been selected to receive the prestigious American Society of Animal Science Morrison Award. Michael Galyean was presented the honor on Monday (July 16) at the organization’s annual conference in Phoenix. more »
