By Elliott Blackburn / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal / May 30, 2007
It’s a miserable sound in a farmer’s ears - that thudding racket of hail crashing into thousands of acres of fledgling green shoots. “Yesterday was not very nice to me at all,” Stacy Smith said. (more…)
GROWING NATIONWIDE concern over food safety is leading Texas Tech University to test the possibility of using video iPods for food industry worker health and safety training. Since its introduction six years ago, the iPod has dominated the portable media player industry. (more…)
Texas Tech University honored two outstanding CASNR staff members with 2007 Quality Service Awards during a ceremony in May at the City Bank Conference Center in the United Spirit Arena. (more…)
More than 2,500 students received diplomas during the Spring 2007 Commencement ceremonies held at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, including 145 from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. (more…)
Missi Currier, a senior agricultural communications major from Carlsbad, NM, was delighted to meet Texas Tech basketball coach Bobby Knight on his visit to the Texas Capitol on May 14. Currier is working as an intern for Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, this summer. (more…)
By Enrique Rangel / A-J AUstin Bureau / May 12, 2007
AUSTIN - The magic of king cotton lives on in West Texas. Just ask the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles. (more…)
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal / May 21, 2007
China’s purchase of $400 million of West Texas cotton - with the intent to buy more in the future - is fantastic news for our region. (more…)
Final preparations are being made to gather cotton researchers from across the globe for the Fourth World Cotton Research Conference, scheduled Sept. 10-14 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in Lubbock. (more…)
Textile Manufacturing Systems – PSS 5372 – a new graduate course offered in the Plant and Soil Science Department will be taught the fall semester by the International Textile Center’s Head of Textile Research Mourad Krifa. (more…)
By Forrest Laws / Delta Farm Press Editorial Staff / May 16, 2007
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says the Bush administration’s farm bill proposals would provide a “strong safety net” for farmers who don’t exceed an average $200,000 in adjusted gross income per year over a three-year period. (more…)
