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Russ Wallace with some of the results from a strawberry test plot.
Russ Wallace with some of the results from a strawberry test plot. Photos: Susan Himes/Texas A&M
AgriLife
Texas A&M strawberry research receives grant
By Susan Himes
Texas A&M AgriLIfe
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Service has received its second Texas
Department of Agriculture Specialty
Block Grant for " Increasing Texas
Strawberry Profitability " project.
The project is a statewide collaboration
led by AgriLife Extension's Russ Wallace,
Ph.D., horticulturist, Lubbock, Texas.
The co-principal investigator is Thayne
Montague, Ph.D., Texas Tech University
associate professor of horticulture
with joint appointment to Texas A&M
AgriLife Research, Lubbock.
Wallace said AgriLife Extension
county agents, Prairie View A&M
University research scientists and
Texas Tech graduate students are also
assisting with the project. The grant
runs through 2022.
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