• AgriLife.org
• Texas AgriLife Extension Service

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Texas AgriLife Extension Service

Foods/Nutrition

• Family and Consumer Sciences – Texas AgriLife Extension Service
  This website is part of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service offering practical information for families: raising children, housing and environment, eating well, managing money, and staying healthy.
  • Food and Nutrition – Explore this web site to learn more about the various food and nutrition program areas targeting all audiences.
• Food and Nutrition Electronic Newsletters
  Monthly food and nutrition electronic newsletters of current food and nutrition issues obtained from national nutrition list serves for Family and Consumer Science Educators are here. Explore this web site to learn more about these issues.

Grants/Contracts

• Briefing room – Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP)
  This web site provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – Economic Research Service (ERA), furnishes information on Competitive Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program, the application process, budget forms and deadlines.
  • Research Funding Opportunities

Internet

• Inside Extension – Texas AgriLife Extension Service
  Home page of Texas AgriLife Extension Service. From this site there are links to other Extension programs, agriculture related subjects, Extension Units, Administration, GroupWise, Event Calendar, Related Links, Ag Program Daily News and more.
• Journal of Extension (JOE)
  The Journal of Extension is the peer reviewed publication of the U.S. Cooperative Extension System. It seeks to expand and update the research and knowledge base for Extension professionals and other adult educators to improve their effectiveness.
• Texas AgriLife Extension Bookstore – Information and Educational Resources for Texans
  This web site is provided by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M System, has many publication topics from which to choose.
• TexasET – The AgriLife Program, Texas A&M System
  This is the Texas EvapoTranspiration (ET) Web Site of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. There is a tutorial online to instruct a person through how to use water requirement calculators, weather information, crop and watering recommendations.

Other Units

• Aggie Horticulture
  This web site is provided by the Horticulture Department at Texas A&M University. It combines the resources of teaching, research, and Texas AgriLife Extension Service to provide information. A searchable database can answer questions you may have about plants, web links and more.
• Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University
  This web site is provided by the Department of Animal Science. Information about the department, admissions, courses, can be accessed, animal behavior, animal breeding and genetics, animal nutrition, beef cattle, dairy cattle, equine science.
• Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University
  Nutrition and Food Science, an interdisciplinary department with faculty from many different areas in the nutritional sciences and food technologies, was created in 2005.
• Department of Poultry Science, Texas A&M University
  Provides a multidisciplinary approach for scholarship in teaching, AgriLife Research and AgriLife Extension to the Texas Poultry Industry.
• Extension Personnel Directory – the Texas AgriLife Extension Service
  Online personnel directory for Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

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Last updated: 26 July, 2010

Educational programs of the Texas AgriLife Extension Service are open to all people without regard to race, color, sex, disability, religion, age, or national origin.