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December 18, 2024 Texas 4-H Foundation receives largest single grant. Adam R. Scripps Foundation’s $700,000 grant will help develop, educate and empower Texas youth
Texas A&M AgriLife Research leading effort to develop more high …
2024年10月3日 · Awarded an $8.4 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA-NIFA, AgriLife Research will spearhead a groundbreaking four-year multi-institution collaborative project to develop resilient, high-quality tomato varieties.. The project, “Climate Resilient High-Quality Tomato Varieties for Sustainable Production,” will be led by Bhimu ...
Texas A&M AgriLife to lead historic investment in Texas’ efforts to ...
2022年9月16日 · The grants are not just historic for The Texas A&M University System, but for the nation, as part of a federal investment in 70 partnerships recently announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.. According to the USDA announcement, these federal projects will expand markets for climate-smart commodities, leverage the greenhouse gas benefits of climate-smart commodity production, and ...
Texas A&M AgriLife outreach improves producer-focused …
2024年10月17日 · The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Texas A&M AgriLife Research have been awarded $1.9 million in Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative grants by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service.. The Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative is a coordinated effort to identify priorities, find solutions and advance conservation practices on private grazing lands ...
Texas A&M AgriLife researchers identify novel approach to …
2024年9月12日 · A Texas A&M AgriLife Research team is working to find crop varieties, starting with sorghum, that will minimize that escaped nitrogen, thus reducing input costs for farmers and greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.. The project is led by Nithya Rajan, Ph.D., recently named director of the Center for Greenhouse Gas Management in …
AgriLife Research-led Cotton Belt sustainability effort underway
2024年11月21日 · AgriLife Research weed science and cropping systems agronomist Muthukumar “Muthu” Bagavathiannan, Ph.D., is leading a $10 million grant project to transform cotton production into a more sustainable system in the southern U.S. Bagavathiannan is the Billie Turner Professor of Agronomy in the Texas A&M Department of Soil and Crop Sciences.. He said the goal of the new multistate project is ...
In search of the ‘holy grail’ of tomatoes - AgriLife Today
2023年7月5日 · The U.S. Department of Agriculture has funded a new Texas A&M AgriLife Research project expected to bring researchers even closer to developing the “holy grail” of tomatoes.. The project is part of an ongoing $16.2 million U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture investment in innovative plant breeding research. It aims to characterize an exceptional novel ...