Department Updates

Beef Cattle Browsing – April 2009

Beef Cattle Browsing – April 2009

February 13th, 2014

Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusApril 2009This 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. SEARCHING FOR CURVE BENDERSThere is considerable interest in purebred…

Beef Cattle Browsing – January 2006

Beef Cattle Browsing – January 2006

February 13th, 2014

Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusJanuary 2006This 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. THE RIGHT DOSE – MAYBE OR MAYBE NOTMost pharmaceuticals are…

Beef Cattle Browsing – May 2007

Beef Cattle Browsing – May 2007

February 13th, 2014

Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusMay 2007This 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. FEEDING CALVES OR YEARLINGSData from Certified Angus Beef Licensed Feedlots…

Beef Cattle Browsing – May 2009

Beef Cattle Browsing – May 2009

February 13th, 2014

Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusMay 2009This 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. QUALITY GRADE — HAS IT REALLY DECLINED?We’re just not…

Beef producers learn finer points of bull selection at workshop

Beef producers learn finer points of bull selection at workshop

February 13th, 2014

Writer: Blair Fannin, 979-845-2259, [email protected]  COLLEGE STATION – Purchasing a bull can be a difficult and sometimes expensive proposition for a beef cattle producer. However, ranchers got an inside look at how to overcome some of these challenges at a recent workshop held in College Station by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. “We have…

Beef Cattle Browsing – December 2010

Beef Cattle Browsing – December 2010

February 13th, 2014

Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusThis 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. STRESS-FREE CATTLE HANDLINGEver wonder why there is so much whooping and hollering when…

Beef Cattle Browsing – October 2004

Beef Cattle Browsing – October 2004

February 13th, 2014

Beef Cattle Browsing Editor: Dr. Stephen Hammack, Professor & Extension Beef Cattle Specialist EmeritusOctober 2004This 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. DO “VALUE-ADDED” HEALTH PROGRAMS REALLY ADD VALUE?A recent collaborative…

Texas A&M Wool Judging Team finishes strong at Texas Invitational

Texas A&M Wool Judging Team finishes strong at Texas Invitational

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…

Beef Cattle Browsing – September 2012

Beef Cattle Browsing – September 2012

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….

Department mourns loss of long-time professor

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….