Archive for 2008
- RGBI wins TCEQ Environmental Excellence Award
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The Rio Grande Basin Initiative (RGBI) project was recently selected as the first place winner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) 2008 Texas Environmental Excellence Award (TEEA) in the agriculture category.
The TEEA celebrates the efforts of citizens, communities, businesses and organizations to preserve and protect the Texas environment. The awards spotlight the state’s [...] - Agricultural Economics students win first prize in poster competition
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Several Rio Grande Basin Initiative students were awarded at the annual Texas A&M AgriLife Conference undergraduate and graduate student poster competition for their outstanding research poster presentations during the January 7-10, 2008 conference.
Award winning agricultural economics students include (left to right) Chris Boyer, Shauna Yow, Emily Seawright, Callie Rogers and Andrew Leidner.
Emily Seawright received first [...] - Economist recognized for outstanding modeling efforts
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Allen Sturdivant, Texas AgriLife Extension Service associate, received two awards at the Texas A&M AgriLife Conference held January 7-10, 2008 for his exceptional performance in working with stakeholders and in creating and applying economic models that are instrumental in addressing rural and urban water use issues in South Texas.
Sturdivant received both the Vice Chancellor’s Award [...] - Big Nut in New Mexico
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Pecan production and water use information collected by satellite
By Leeann DeMouche
Pecan production in New Mexico is a big business, where annual cash receipts have been anywhere from $85 million to more than $100 million annually (U.S. Department of Agriculture-National Agricultural Statistics Service), causing a growing interest in increased pecan acreage. Acreage for pecan [...]
