Texas AgriLife Research

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Texas AgriLife Research
Official Texas AgriLife Research logo (2008)
Agency overview
Formed	1887
Jurisdiction	Texas
Headquarters	College Station, Texas
Employees	1015 full-time, 1654 part-time[1]
Annual Budget	$153 million (FY 2007)[2]
Agency Executives	Dr. Mark Hussey, Director   Dr. William A. "Bill" Dugas, Deputy Director   Dr. Bill McCutchen, Deputy Associate Director
Parent agency	Texas A&M AgriLife
Website
http://agriliferesearch.tamu.edu/

Texas AgriLife Research is the agricultural and life sciences research agency of Texas and a part of the Texas A&M University System. Formerly named Texas Agricultural Research Service, the agency's name was changed January 1, 2008 as part of a rebranding of Texas A&M AgriLife (formerly Texas A&M Agriculture).

The agricultural experiment station division is headquartered at Texas A&M's flagship campus in College Station, Texas. Texas AgriLife Research serves all 254 Texas counties and operates thirteen research centers throughout the state, located in the following cities:

• Amarillo
• Beaumont
• Chillicothe
• Corpus Christi
• Dallas
• El Paso
• Lubbock
• Overton
• San Angelo
• Stephenville
• Temple
• Uvalde
• Weslaco
• McGregor

Texas AgriLife Research specialists in beef cattle have produced the world's largest set of gene-mapping resources for beef cattle and have cloned what is believed to be the first animal—a calf—specifically cloned for disease resistance.

[edit] Facts from webpage

• FY 2003 budget: $128,866,279
• Products of Texas AgriLife Research research result in a 30 to 50 percent return on investment.
• The agency generates 41 percent of the Texas A&M University System's royalty income from commercialization of technology.
• The agency received more than $56 million in contract and grant awards for fiscal year 2002.

[edit] References

1. ^ FTE State Employee Quarterly Report Texas AgriLife Research (#556) for the Quarter Ending November 30, 2007. Texas AgriLife Research. Retrieved on 2008-01-14.
2. ^ Texas AgriLife Research. Texas A&M University System. Retrieved on 2008-01-15.

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