The 62nd Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course runs August 1-3 in College Station, with sessions on production, management and market outlooks, a Cattleman's College of workshops, and demonstrations of fence building, cattle working and carcass quality.
Section archive
Sci-Tech
Science and technology from food, agriculture and nutrition research.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Sci-Tech
Breeding Sugar Beets for Better Resistance to Curly Top Virus
USDA scientists in Kimberly, Idaho released KDH13, a sugar beet breeding line raised by gynogenesis from a single virus-resistant female parent. It outperformed the resistant cultivar Hilleshog PM90 in greenhouse and nursery tests. Severe curly top outbreaks can cut yields by up to 30 percent.
Sci-Tech
Ancient Grains Make Healthful, Tasty Cookies
USDA Agricultural Research Service chemist George Inglett and colleagues blended amaranth flour and finely ground chia with oat products containing beta-glucan to make gluten-free sugar cookies. The amaranth dough held water better than wheat and the cookies rated acceptable.
Sci-Tech
Animal science department mourns loss of equine professor
Dr. Josie Coverdale, 38, associate professor of equine science at Texas A&M, died Feb. 13 of complications from injuries in a car accident. She taught equine nutrition, directed research on forage utilization and hindgut fermentation, and taught internationally.
Sci-Tech
Food Toxin Detector Incorporates Camera
ARS chemist Reuven Rasooly and colleagues built a digital-camera-based system that measures Shiga toxin activity as effectively as equipment costing 100 times more, and can tell the dangerous active form from the harmless inactive one, which current immunological tests cannot.
Sci-Tech
Editors' picks: Beautiful wordpress themes for publishers/bloggers
A recommendation of WordPress themes from magazine3, singling out ProBlog and TechSavvy at $59 per domain, on the argument that publishers need a clean, fast-loading, responsive theme before traffic can be built and sold to advertisers.
Sci-Tech
Sakata Develops Next Big Thing in Cantaloupes
Sakata Seed America unveiled Infinite Gold LSL, a conventionally bred cantaloupe the company says pairs long shelf life with yield and flavor and can be harvested in two or three passes instead of the seven or eight needed for Western Shipper types.
Sci-Tech
ARS Food and Nutrition Research Briefs Issued 091015 - ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service briefs: an analysis of a federal eye-disease trial tied an “Oriental” dietary pattern to lower odds of age-related macular degeneration and a “Western” pattern to markedly higher odds. A second item covers patented infrared tomato peeling.
Sci-Tech
Jeffrey Smith at the Real Truth about Health Conference May 22 - 31, 2015
Jeffrey Smith will give two talks on GMOs and Roundup at the Real Truth about Health Conference, running May 22-31 in Orlando and free to attend in person or watch live online, with on-demand replays afterward.
Sci-Tech
Use protonmail.ch if you are concerned about email security
A recommendation for protonmail.ch: servers in Switzerland outside US and EU jurisdiction, end-to-end encryption its operators say leaves even them unable to read messages, a second pass for access, no collection of personal data such as IP or phone number, and free accounts of unstated size.
Sci-Tech
Killing Fish Egg Fungus with a Disinfectant
USDA toxicologist David Straus found peracetic acid, a stabilized mix of concentrated vinegar and hydrogen peroxide, killed fungus on catfish eggs without leaving residues that harm young fish. It disinfects wastewater and hospital items but is not yet used in US aquaculture.
Sci-Tech
Research Shows Honey Bee Diseases Can Strike in All Seasons
USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists and Brazilian collaborators found the bacteria Spiroplasma melliferum and S. apis in honey bees more often than expected, in both Maryland and Brazil, suggesting they may threaten bees year-round rather than only in spring.
Sci-Tech
Setting the Record Straight on GMOs
A rebuttal to Michael Specter's New Yorker piece on Vandana Shiva, arguing he wrote as an avowed GMO believer, passed over scientific, economic and legal evidence against his view, and left readers with the false impression that the safety debate is settled.
Sci-Tech
Texas A&M awarded grant to help reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier lifestyles
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension received $783,000 for the first year of a three-year grant to improve access to healthy food and safe places to exercise in Hidalgo County. It is part of $4.6 million going to six land-grant universities in counties with over 40 percent adult obesity.
Sci-Tech
Detecting and Preventing Disease in Trout
USDA scientists field-tested a rainbow trout line bred to resist bacterial cold-water disease against susceptible and control lines on working farms. The resistant fish survived at higher rates, and fewer carried Flavobacterium psychrophilum in their tissues.
Sci-Tech
Innate - the first GMO potato goes to market next year
The Packer reported that a GMO potato called Innate, which the USDA was expected to approve that fall, would reach market the following year. A J.R. Simplot director said it offers less black spot bruising and lower asparagine and sugars.
Sci-Tech
Miller elected to Texas Plant Protection Association Board of Directors
The Texas Plant Protection Association elected Travis Miller, interim associate director for state operations at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, to its board. Miller joined AgriLife in 1979 as a Weslaco agronomist and later served as state small grains specialist.
Sci-Tech
10 Ways to Use Banana Peels
An EcoWatch post arguing banana peels need not go in the trash, noting that discarded food fills landfills and, by EPA figures, accounts for more than 20 percent of methane emissions. A Sustainable America infographic supplies the uses.
71 stories