Texas A&M AgriLife Research - Amarillo

Texas A&M AgriLife Research - Amarillo Adding value to Panhandle agriculture through applied research. Emphasizing wheat, beef, water, corn, sorghum, cotton, and vegetables.

We hope everyone interested will plan on joining us in the field this year for our wheat plot tour. Texas Wheat Texas A&...
05/10/2021

We hope everyone interested will plan on joining us in the field this year for our wheat plot tour. Texas Wheat Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services - Potter County 4-H, FCH & Ag/NR Oldham County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and 4-H Deaf Smith County Extension & 4-H Randall County 4-H - Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Texas A&M AgriLife is inviting producers to a wheat plot tour near Bushland on May 20 to look at variety performance and hear updates.

Want to be a good steward of our precious water supply but also have a green yard. There's an app for that. And the High...
07/03/2020

Want to be a good steward of our precious water supply but also have a green yard. There's an app for that. And the High Plains Water District is helping make sure the data is available for our region.

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s WaterMyYard program has a new, free mobile app to help homeowners know when to trun on the sprinklers.

Pima cotton is worth more money, but it brings with it a concern for the establishment of a fungus, FOV4, in this Upland...
07/03/2020

Pima cotton is worth more money, but it brings with it a concern for the establishment of a fungus, FOV4, in this Upland cotton belt of the U.S.

The Texas Plains cotton-growing region is not known for raising Pima cotton, but increasing interest in the crop has Texas A&M AgriLife officials on alert.

You may have been dive bombed by these massive insects, but don't worry, they aren't an Asian giant hornet or "murder ho...
07/03/2020

You may have been dive bombed by these massive insects, but don't worry, they aren't an Asian giant hornet or "murder hornet" as they are called because of the damage they do the bee population. These are cicada killers that emerge in June from holes in the ground.

Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists are being inundated with cicada killers and other insects submitted for identification as an Asian giant hornet.

Across the state, wheat producers are gathering their harvest, as are Texas A&M AgriLife faculty and cooperators who ann...
06/12/2020

Across the state, wheat producers are gathering their harvest, as are Texas A&M AgriLife faculty and cooperators who annually plant uniform variety trials to help determine the best selections for a given region for next year. While producers couldn't come into our fields this year, we still wanted to bring our trials and information to everyone. Take a look at what we saw in a virtual wheat tour from the different regions.

A traditional May wheat field tour wasn't possible, so Texas A&M AgriLife faculty across the state are bringing fields to producers – virtually.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, AgriLife Extension risk management specialists like DeDe Jones in our Amarillo office are of...
06/05/2020

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, AgriLife Extension risk management specialists like DeDe Jones in our Amarillo office are offering decision help.

AgriLIfe Extension offers decision aid to help Texas High Plains agricultural producers suffering financial strains brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Shuyu Liu continues the virtual wheat field day with a discussion on wheat curl mites and wheat streak mosaic resear...
06/03/2020

Dr. Shuyu Liu continues the virtual wheat field day with a discussion on wheat curl mites and wheat streak mosaic research by his program.

Dr. Shuyu Liu, Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat geneticist in Amarillo, discusses their program to test wheat curl mites in a laboratory setting to determin...

Welcome to Dr. Bednarz, a High Plains native who will lead the Semi-Arid Agricultural Systems Institute at WT and also h...
06/02/2020

Welcome to Dr. Bednarz, a High Plains native who will lead the Semi-Arid Agricultural Systems Institute at WT and also has a joint Texas A&M AgriLife Research appointment.

New plant breeding researcher hired as the director of the Semi-Arid Agricultural Systems Institute at West Texas A&M University in Canyon.

Another addition to the Virtural Wheat Field Day - Dr. Shuyu Liu discusses his latest work on double haploid wheat and w...
06/01/2020

Another addition to the Virtural Wheat Field Day - Dr. Shuyu Liu discusses his latest work on double haploid wheat and what it brings to the breeding process.

Dr. Shuyu Liu discusses the current work into double-haploid wheat, which can reduce the time it takes breeders to discover new varieties with enhanced chara...

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Amarillo, TX
79106

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