Center Slide or home page

2. “The Uvalde Research Center’s mission is to create knowledge and
technology that result in efficient and profitable intensive agricultural
and urban management systems while maintaining balance between
the environment and social prosperity.”

3. June 1975
PHOTO PRESENTED .. In memory of
Clint W. Bracher, this photograph of
the Texas A&M campus was
presented to the Texas A&M
University Agricultural Research
and Extension Center in Uvalde.

4. Maximizing Cotton Production

5. Conserving Underground Resources

6. Analyzing antioxidants (carotenoids) in
response to irrigation practices for
melons and spinach

7. ARTICHOKE: A new specialty crop for Texas

9. Faculty
In action…..

10. Faculty
In action

13. Improving Drip Irrigation & Stand Establishment - Onion
TEW Transplants
TEW - Direct Seeded
Drip 2” deep Drip 6” deep

14. Enhancing production of quality wildlife

15. Improving Irrigation Efficiency

16. Staking vines destined for grape Pierce’s disease plot work,
AgriLife Center, Uvalde

17. Combating Pierce’s disease of Grapes
Insect sticky traps Identifying insect vectors
Insect Trap Hedge
Mowing vineyard plots Symptoms of Pierce’s Disease

18. Habitat improvement Aging deer for better herd management
Wildlife nutrition
Students learn quail management Wildlife and disease transmission

19. Hunting behavior of nocturnal predators

20. < Measuring feed intake for nutritional studies
Refining prediction of antler quality >

21. < Evaluating rose flower quality
(diagnosing physiological disorders
due to temperature and radiation)
Studying water and nutrient use >
efficiency in intensively-grown
ornamental greenhouse crops

22. Measuring water use in established
landscape trees
Assessing quality of nursery-grown trees
and their posterior
landscape establishment

23. State Representatives Tracy King, John
Kuemple, Pete Gallego discuss state
issues at the County Commissioner’s
Court Conference held at the Uvalde
Center in December 2011.
Educational sessions were provided during the
County Commissioners Court Conference

25. Rainwater Reveille 2012
Rainwater catchment & groundwater conservation

26. Rainwater Reveille 2012
Rainwater catchment & groundwater conservation

27. Pecan Field Day

28. Children's Vegetable Garden Program at the Botanical Gardens

29. Children's Vegetable Garden Program at the Botanical Gardens