February 13th, 2014
By Victoria Pilger LUBBOCK – The Texas A&M Wool Judging team competed at the Texas Invitational Wool Contest in Lubbock and won every division including grading rails, placing classes and reasons. The team secured 12 of the top 15 high individual awards in the contest. Texas A&M competed against Texas Tech University, Angelo State University…
February 13th, 2014
This newsletter is published by Texas AgriLife Extension – Animal Science. Media, feel free to use this information as needed and cite Texas A&M University Beef Cattle Browsing Newsletter, Dr. Steve Hammack. Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist Emeritus WHAT NOW FOR COOL?The World Trade Organization’s highest appeals body recently ruled U….
February 13th, 2014
COLLEGE STATION — Dr. Darrell Knabe, professor of animal nutrition in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University, died Dec. 25, 2012, at his home in Bryan, Texas. He was 62. Knabe joined the Department of Animal Science as an assistant professor in 1978 and attained the rank of full professor in 1991….
February 13th, 2014
Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusJune 2005This newsletter is published by Texas AgriLife Extension – Animal Science. Media, feel free to use this information as needed and cite Texas A&M University Beef Cattle Browsing Newsletter, Dr. Steve Hammack. BSE: WHAT DO WE KNOW?BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, also known…
February 13th, 2014
Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusAugust 2005This newsletter is published by Texas AgriLife Extension – Animal Science. Media, feel free to use this information as needed and cite Texas A&M University Beef Cattle Browsing Newsletter, Dr. Steve Hammack. GENETIC SELECTION FOR OVULATIONThe U. S. Meat Animal Research…
February 13th, 2014
DECATUR – The 2012 Texas A&M University Stock Horse Team remains undefeated after winning two American Stock Horse Association Intercollegiate Contests this fall. The Aggie team was named high point champion team in Bryan on Dec. 6 and in Decatur on Oct. 20. Current team members are Ryan Birkenfeld, a junior agricultural business major from…
February 13th, 2014
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, [email protected]: Dr. Bruce Carpenter, 432-336-8585, [email protected] LUBBOCK– As 2013 approaches, cattlemen should mark those brand new calendars for the Southwest Beef Symposium, set for Jan. 15-16 at the Overton Hotel and Conference Center in Lubbock. “This is the eighth year the Texas and New Mexico Extension agencies have collaborated on the annual event that…
February 13th, 2014
Erin Morrow Hawley was honored by the College of Agriculture and Life Science with the Outstanding Early Career Alumni Award presented at the Legacy and Leadership Banquet held recently in College Station. Hawley has set a great example for College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students who want to enter professional school after earning their…
February 13th, 2014
By Olivia Norton The summer of 2013 brought a new kind of challenge and opportunity for two animal science graduate students. Levi Trubenbach and Alyssa Word, both seeking a master’s of science, jumped at the chance to gain hands-on experience in the form of an internship with Cactus Feeders, a large scale cattle feeding operation…
February 13th, 2014
Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, [email protected] COLLEGE STATION – Dr. Guoyao Wu, a distinguished professor in the department of animal science at Texas A&M University, has been named Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wu was recognized for discovery of novel pathways of amino acid nutrition and metabolism affecting intestine, cardiovascular and…
