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Don Ethridge; Guest Commentary
The Texas cotton industry produces, and exports, more cotton than any state in the country. This is partly because it is a big state, but it also is an attractive money crop that is well adapted for the climate and other resource conditions in the state. (more…)
Texas Monthly
July 24, 2006
Update COWAMONGUS Located just off the main lobby of the Animal and Food Sciences Building, on the Tech campus, this little eatery (a retail outlet for the Texas Tech Meat Lab) has no sign and limited parking. But you know you’re close when you spot those huge bovine sculptures lounging about. (more…)
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 23, 2006; Page A08
A bitter regulatory battle over the safety of a packaging system that can keep meat looking fresh long past its shelf life is escalating, amid complaints that the industry misinterpreted recent research reports to bolster its case. (more…)
Richard Zartman, who has taught in Texas Tech University’s plant and soil science department for more than three decades, has been named a Leidigh Professor. (more…)
Austin American-Statesman
In 1998, Bayer CropScience introduced a new seed to West Texas cotton farmers. Developed in Australia, the FiberMax seed seemed incompatible with the High Plains’ harsh winds and short growing season, and the German company’s expectations were low. It assigned a single salesman to hawk the new product. (more…)
It’s time to saddle up and support the Texas Tech Rodeo Team. An Old Timers Rodeo Association Rodeo and Scholarship Auction will be held July 29 at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center. (more…)
Texas could get its biggest return in terms of legislative time and tax money by concentrating its Ogallala Aquifer conservation efforts on nine heavily irrigated counties, Texas Tech researchers have found. (more…)
Salt cedars are a growing concern in the Southwest, where both cities and farmers have watched their groundwater supplies shrink in recent years as the plants deplete rivers and lakes. (more…)
Scientists, farmers and others have set out to see whether Southern High Plains growers can pump less irrigation water and still maintain their profit levels. Cotton alone carried them far in the past. Good prices, revenue-enhancing federal programs, and tradition have steered producers toward this crop as a monoculture for decades. (more…)
Chad Davis knows the value of water. Growing up in Lubbock, he watched parched yards guzzle tap water through one thermometer-thumping summer after another. Now head of the landscape architecture group at Lubbock-based Parkhill, Smith & Cooper, Inc., Davis struggles to find lawn grasses for his clients that are lush and attractive yet responsibly suited to this dry region. (more…)
