Maria Fernanda Sanches, an intern at the High Plains Ag Lab, prepares a root sample at the Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center’s lab in Scottsbluff. (Photo: Chabella Guzman)

Researchers look at roots for insight into drought-tolerant wheat

  • By Chabella Guzman │ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Little girl is having fun with golden retriever on a green grass. (Photo: iStock - Vasyl Dolmatov)

Furry friends can increase healthy trends

  • By Emma Parkhurst │ Utah State University Extension
Cows grazing sunn hemp at MU Greenley Research Farm in northeastern Missouri. Photo by Harley Naumann.

Sunn hemp can boost summer pastures

Michael Buser, Ph.D., the Endowed Chair in Cotton Engineering, Ginning and Mechanization, said collaborative partnerships will help the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering lead innovation that supports the cotton industry from “dirt to shirt.” (Texas A&M AgriLife photos by Sam Craft, Courtney Sacco and Laura McKenzie)

Buser named Endowed Chair in Cotton Engineering

The Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association is helping prepare the field for planting. (Susan Himes/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Texas A&M AgriLife and Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association team up on ‘field of dreams’

The total solar eclipse is expected to last over 4 minutes as it tracks across the Texas sky on April 8. Not only will the sky darken, but many animals will sense changes in temperature and wind speed. (Photo: Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife)

How do animals react to a solar eclipse?

  • By Ashley Vargo │ Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

Worming a way out of a parasite predicament

Nathan Stepp, senior agriculturalist-operations lead at the OSU Agronomy Research Station, gathers wheat seedlings last fall to be transplanted into the site's greenhouses. (Photo by Mitchell Alcala, OSU Agriculture)

OSU wheat genetics dominate commercial markets despite outdated infrastructure