September AgNews Links

September 28, 2001
SOCC Program Founded Five Years Ago In Texas  
COLLEGE STATION – In Texas, half of the juvenile offenders become repeat offenders.

September 27, 2001
SOCC Program Improves Kids’ Lives  
JASPER – The Strengthening Our Capacity to Care program in Jasper County has been close to Cassandra Ensign's heart for six years. An officer with the Jasper County Juvenile Probation Office, Ensign's profession brings her into daily contact with young people whose lives are going down a destructive road. As a new officer six years ago, she decided to do something about it.

September 27, 2001
Consumer Safety Officer Training Grant Received  
COLLEGE STATION -- Thirty-five U.S. Department of Agriculture consumer safety officers will be trained for their new positions by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station and the International HACCP Alliance at Texas A&M University, thanks to a USDA grant.

September 26, 2001
IAMA Names Executive Director  
COLLEGE STATION -- The International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IAMA) has named Morton Satin, head of Food and Agro-Industries for the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, as executive director of IAMA. Satin has been invited to be an adjunct professor in the department of agricultural economics at Texas A&M University beginning Jan. 1.

September 26, 2001
Program Helps At-Risk Youth  
JASPER – "All you need is love," sang the Beatles in 1967, and organizers of the Strengthening Our Capacity to Care program might agree with that – with qualifications.

September 25, 2001
Texas Crop, Weather Report  
COLLEGE STATION ~W Texas producers are harvesting sunflowers which are showing to be popular due to limited water supplies in the state, Texas Cooperative Extension reports.

September 25, 2001
National Food Safety Education Month: Food Questions Answered  
COLLEGE STATION – This is National Food Safety Education Month – what better time to get answers to some food safety questions. Dr. Peggy Van Laanen, Texas Cooperative Extension program leader in food and nutrition, and Britta Thompson, Extension associate in food and nutrition, provide the answers:

September 25, 2001
Cultures, Fathers And Families Workshop Set For Oct. 4 In Dallas  
DALLAS – Texas Cooperative Extension will host a family-strengthening seminar called Cultures, Fathers and Families: Train The Trainer Workshop from 8 a.m.- 4:15 p.m. Oct.4 at Texas A&M Dallas, located at 17360 Coit Road in Dallas.

September 24, 2001
Producers, Homeowners Advised To Think Twice Before Treating For Armyworms  
EAST TEXAS – Recent rains and cooling temperatures have spawned outbreaks of fall armyworms, but an Extension entomologist advises it may not be economical to treat this year – even if the worms take half the grass in a pasture.

September 24, 2001
Leal Named District Extension Director  
CORPUS CHRISTI – Fela Leal has been named Texas Cooperative Extension director for family and consumer sciences in District 11 (Coastal Bend), effective June 1, announced Dr. Kathy Volanty, Extension associate director for human sciences. Leal formerly served as Extension agent in the Expanded Nutrition Program in Corpus Christi.

September 21, 2001
Avoid Fraud In Times Of Turmoil  
COLLEGE STATION – With the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and the attempted destruction of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, the world changed.

September 21, 2001
Food Safety Begins At Beginning  
COLLEGE STATION – September is National Food Safety Education Month this year, and food safety, naturally enough, begins at the beginning. All the kitchen cleanliness in the world won't protect consumers from food-borne illnesses if producers are careless at the beginning of the food production line.

September 21, 2001
Texan Jim Butler Chosen For Top-Ranking USDA Job  
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Jim Butler of College Station has been named deputy undersecretary of Marketing and Regulatory Programs by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman.

September 20, 2001
Victoria County 4-H’ers Win Multiple Awards  
VICTORIA – A trio of Texas 4-H'ers from Victoria County have started a program that has proven to be an award-winner, both for the 4-H'ers and for the environment.

September 19, 2001
Dr. Ed Smith Appointed Associate Director For Agriculture And Natural Resources  
COLLEGE STATION — Texas Cooperative Extension has appointed Dr. Ed Smith to associate director for agriculture and natural resources.

September 19, 2001
Overton Specialist Named New Sustainable Ag State Coordinator  
EAST TEXAS – Texas Cooperative Extension has named Marty Baker as the new state coordinator for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, Southern Region.

September 18, 2001
Texas Crop, Weather Report  
COLLEGE STATION — Halloween is around the corner, and the state's pumpkin producers are preparing for their peak season, Texas Cooperative Extension reports.

September 18, 2001
Families React To Tragedy, Even Thousands Of Miles Away  
COLLEGE STATION – On Sept. 11, 2001, the nation and the world were changed forever. Three commercial jet airliners, each carrying passengers and crews, were hijacked and used as weapons to attack the United States by taking down the World Trade Center in New York City and destroying part of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth hijacked airliner went down in a field in Pennsylvania before reaching its designated target.

September 18, 2001
Mosquitos: A Good News, Bad News Situation  
COLLEGE STATION — It would be difficult to convince anyone suffering from bites that recent rainfalls have had any positive effect on the mosquito population. However, Dr. Jim Olson, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station entomologist, says this is currently the situation.

September 17, 2001
Heavy Rains Cause Concern In Central Texas Cotton Fields  
COLLEGE STATION -- Recent prolonged heavy rainfall over Central Texas has reduced cotton lint and seed quality, while lowering yields and threatened regrowth potential, according to Dr. Robert Lemon, interim state cotton specialist with Texas Cooperative Extension.

September 17, 2001
Sept. 22 Field Day To Study Range Management In Drought-Hit South Texas And Northeastern Mexico  
CORPUS CHRISTI--A field day scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 22, near Alice will look at strategies for better range management for the drought-hit shrub lands of South Texas and northeast Mexico.

September 17, 2001
Texas Crop, Weather Report  
COLLEGE STATION — Wet weather has been detrimental to the Central Texas cotton crop, which will cause a major financial setback, the Texas Cooperative Extension reports.

September 12, 2001
Telling Children About Tragedy  
Recent events at the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., will certainly be in news for quite some time, and many of our lives may be disrupted in different ways because of this. As many of us watch the news and talk to others about the days events, our children will certainly notice that something is going on.

September 11, 2001
CHARACTER COUNTS! Conference Cancelled; Agnmore Suspends Reports  
LUBBOCK –– The Sept. 12 CHARACTER COUNTS! Community Awareness Conference at the Lubbock Civic Center, reported through AGNMORE earlier today, has been cancelled due to the act of terrorism on the United States today.

September 11, 2001
CHARACTER COUNTS! Community Awareness Conference Slated In Lubbock  
LUBBOCK – Parents, educators, education administrators, childcare providers, health and human service workers and others who interact daily with children should plan to attend the Sept. 12 CHARACTER COUNTS! Community Awareness Conference at the Lubbock Civic Center.

September 10, 2001
Amador Named President Of Professional Group  
WESLACO — Dr. Jose Amador, director of the Texas A&M Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Weslaco, is the new president of the Latin American Association of Phytopathology.

September 08, 2001
Texas A&M Poultry Science Department Wins Four Awards  
COLLEGE STATION - The Texas A&M University poultry science department won four of 12 national awards given at the Poultry Science Association meeting held recently in Indianapolis.

September 06, 2001
New Horticulturist Joins Bexar County Extension Staff  
SAN ANTONIO -- Lynn Rawe, a five-year Texas Cooperative Extension veteran with 25 years of experience in horticulture, is the new county Extension agent for horticulture in Bexar County.

September 05, 2001
Texas Crop, Weather Report  
COLLEGE STATION — Recent rains have helped many Texas crops, but the state's peanut crop is thirsting for more, Texas Cooperative Extension reports.

September 05, 2001
Texas A&M Touts Three Species Of Cloned Animals  
COLLEGE STATION - Researchers at Texas A&M University's College of Veterinary Medicine have cloned a litter of pigs, becoming the first academic institution in the world to have cloned three different animal species.

September 04, 2001
News Conference Advisory: Texas A&M First In World To Clone Three Animal Species
WHAT: News Conference at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

September 03, 2001
Refrigeration Helps Keep Foods Safe  
COLLEGE STATION – "Be cool!" is the theme of National Food Safety Education Month, celebrated in September this year.