Aquatics Program Plans To Emerge As A Leader In Aquatic Ecology

CSI lab or aquatic lab? When stepping into Barnes, Ph.D., aquatics lab, it feels as if you’re stepping into a CSI Lab watching students look through microscopes at swabs from drinking glasses and door handles in search of DNA.

Truett Shafer: Landscape Architecture

Shafer developed a passion for landscape design by qualifying for the national landscape design contest through FFA. This opened his mind up to the concept of landscape design, which led him to want to pursue a career in landscape architecture.

An Unconventional Relationship

Nearly 80 years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor “a day that will live in infamy,” and it certainly has. On that day, the course of history was forever altered, and so, too, were the lives of many families in the Texas Panhandle.

Sophie Morris: Natural Resources Management

From a young age, she knew her passion would eventually lead her career.

Hannah Ford: Agricultural Communications

There are many different jobs that display agritourism, but few people think of this unique one.

Alexxus Haag: Landscape Architecture

A West Texas native and aspiring artist from Colorado City, Alexxus “Lexi” Haag, started an artistic journey that […]

Repurposed with a New Purpose

Amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday college life, hundreds of Texas Tech University students pass by the Dairy Barn, unaware of its profound history and present-day purpose. However, 50 years ago, many students’ lives, and educations, depended on the Dairy Barn.

Connecting With the Capitol

Agricultural commodity organizations manage to stay in cahoots with the Capitol through the use of computers and virtual communication.

Building Future Leaders

Klose is inspired everyday by his students and likes to take a nontraditional approach to learning that can accommodate each student.

Cattle, Congress and Communications

“Everything I’ve [previously] done is all connected now because I’m working with all my friends and contacts I made while in Lubbock, Austin and Washington, D.C.,” Adams said. “Texas Farm Bureau has allowed me to gain countless new contacts which in-turn help enact good ag policy in D.C. I love working directly for farmers and ranchers and Texas Farm Bureau; you can’t find a better place to work if you’re going to serve the ag community.”

Legacy & Lineage: The Four Sixes

With faith leading perseverance, integrity nurturing successful land stewardship, strength stimulating empowerment, and excellence keeping the legendary Four Sixes Ranch alive, the 150-year-old operation carries a legacy like no other.

Agriculture’s First Line of Defense

“My job is to the best of my ability and the dog’s ability to protect American ag from potential pests, diseases, invasive plant species, to also protect endangered or protected species of animals or plants,” Jordan said.

Red Raiders Meating the Demand

What was known as a meat shortage to many felt like an opportunity for Raider Red Meats to shine.

A Goal Realized

“Her strength is, without a shadow of a doubt, her ability to communicate,” McBride said. “She has great researching ability and boundaries that are on all sides of the argument.”