Texas farmers continue to find ways to add value to their operations through alternative crops like oilseeds and cover crop forages.

Many plants in Texas landscapes are suitable hosts for aphids, including bedding plants, ash, barberry, boxelder, crape myrtle, jasmine, flowering almond, gardenia, hibiscus, hydrangea, mountain ash, ...

Texas is known for a climate that can be hot, dry, and humid, but our lineup of plants has no trouble growing, and even ...

One of the hardest-hit areas by the ongoing drought is Hays County, just southwest of Austin, where it will be a real struggle to keep the water flowing in the decades ahead according to experts.One ...

Rainfall has benefitted many crops statewide, but the moisture also serves as a catalyst for insects and pests.

The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific ...

Most of the domestic crop is grown in hot, dry regions such as California, Texas and Florida ... screened 68 varieties of wild spinach from the region where the plant originated -- Uzbekistan ...

Layne Kennedy Come September in northern Minnesota, on lakes on the Ojibwa lands, harvesters, two per canoe, pole through thick clusters of wild rice plants growing along the marshy shores.

Feral hogs are a persistent and costly threat to U.S. crop and livestock production, inflicting over $1.6 billion in damages ...

Experience the energy and celebration at the AIDS LifeCycle Finish Line Festival this weekend! Witness the end of an ...

In early January 2025, wastewater treatment plants in Houston detected a virus that had not appeared in the city’s influent ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields. And that’s because the kind of rice we’re most familiar with is the long-grain, wetland variety called lowland rice. That would ...