Texas Tech University’s Meat Animal Evaluation Team won first place in the 2007 National Meat Animal Evaluation Contest, a first for Texas Tech in the championship’s 43-year history. (more…)

LAST YEAR’S SCORCHING wildfires charred more than 900,000 acres of Texas Panhandle grasslands and pockets of cottonwoods, killing 12, devastating cattle herds and disrupting life in general. (more…)

By Jim Mcbride / Morris News Service / March 27, 2007
McLEAN - Last year’s scorching wildfires charred more than 900,000 acres of Texas Panhandle grasslands and pockets of cottonwoods, killing 12, devastating cattle herds and disrupting life in general. (more…)

CNN Magazine
During the next decade, worldwide demand for cotton is projected to grow by about 20 million bales or 16 percent, according to a new analysis by Texas Tech University’s Cotton Economics Research Institute. (more…)

DURING THE NEXT decade, worldwide demand for West Texas’ most important agricultural crop – cotton – is projected to grow by about 20 million bales or 16 percent, according to a new analysis by Texas Tech University’s Cotton Economics Research Institute. (more…)

Avalanche Journal / Sunday, March 18, 2007
Thousands of high school students will participate in three FFA judging contests in March and April at Texas Tech University. (more…)

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Texas FFA – State Vice President / Major: Agricultural Leadership
RILEY BRANCH IS a new face on an old-fashioned tradition. The clean-cut Texas Tech University sophomore is a leader in the Texas FFA Association, once known as the Future Farmers of America. (more…)

Research projects focusing on a new turf grass suited for semi-arid regions and a new drug to help increase the effectiveness of antibiotics have won financial support from Texas Tech University’s Office of the Vice President for Research. (more…)

Sulphur Springs Country World News
Speakers at the 2007 Texas Ag Forum held in Austin, on Feb. 23, made various presentations to an over-flowing room of interested producers, ag experts and politicians. Dr. Jaime Malaga, from the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, had information that wasn’t all pleasant to hear. (more…)