BBC News reports today (Nov. 30) that a Texas Tech University-based company has developed a technique that it says can make bread stay mold-free for 60 days. The bread is zapped in a sophisticated microwave array which kills the spores that cause the problem. The company claims it could significantly reduce the amount of wasted bread. (more…)
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…)
Texas Tech brought home the university’s tenth national championship in meat judging on Sunday (Nov. 18) at the American Meat Science Association’s International Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest in Dakota City, Neb. (more…)
Over the past three years, an impressive problem-solving computer program, called the Stocker Cattle Analysis Tool, has been slowly evolving in the academic recesses of several agricultural economists’ offices across the nation. Now, it’s ready to roll out the gate at no cost to cattle producers. (more…)
Texas Tech University brought home the school’s tenth national championship in meat judging on Sunday (Nov. 18) at the American Meat Science Association’s International Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest in Dakota City, Neb. Tech won the beef judging, lamb judging, pork judging, specifications, placings and reasons divisions, and finished second in total beef and beef grading. (more…)
Kaitlin Spraberry spends her Lubbock nights playing on stages across Lubbock, but this fall she got the chance to see first-hand the Nashville stages where legends play. Through her experiences as an agricultural communications major at Texas Tech, Spraberry spent the semester as a music strategy and marketing intern for CMT (Country Music Television), a Nashville-based cable television network. (more…)
