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Texas Seed Trade Association
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Improve your seed production
Texas Seed Trade Association helps members connect with experts, access research, share knowledge and drive the industry.
Our Expertise
Lobbying
All seed producers in Texas are represented by the Texas Seed Trade Association
Legislation
TSTA works to enact legislation to ensure fair trade practices both domestic and internationally, and continue the Texas commitment to producing high quality seeds recognized the world over for excellence
Grow Out
The Texas Seed Trade Association hosts the Texas Winter Seed Growouts in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica and collaborates with the Texas Department of Agriculture to facilitate seed certification
Research
TSTA facilitates current and future developments in seed and crop technology and an opportunity for TSTA Associate members to showcase their products and services
Education
The TSTA Foundation furnishes 13 annual college scholarships to deserving Texas students that might otherwise have difficulty getting the education they need
Cooperation
Texas Seed Trade Association members work together to continue the Texas commitment to producing high quality seeds recognized the world over for excellence
Latest NEWS Posts
Students from across the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences departments lead the annual Texas A&M Plant Breeding Symposium. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo)
TSTA Weekly Update, 02/09/2023
- February 9, 2023
- NewsAdminA Editor
- Breeding
Inside this Issue:
9th annual Texas A&M Plant Breeding Symposium set for February 16 - Student-run event highlights generations of plant breeding
Oatly pioneers carbon impact labels on food. Is this unregulated junk science or useful information?
Better News for Texas Weather Outlook
USDA FORECASTS FARM SECTOR'S PROFITS TO FALL IN 2023 AFTER RECORD HIGHS IN 2022
News Bits
Hoverfly and earwig eat sorghum pollen
TSTA Weekly Update, 02/02/2023
- February 2, 2023
- NewsAdminA Editor
- Pollen
Inside this Issue:
Are Solar Power Facilities Making News in Your County?
Sorghum: the unlikely food source for pollinators
USA - Supply of native seeds insufficient to meet the needs of current and future ecological restoration projects, says new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Strengthening sorghum against a worldwide fungal threat - ARS and Purdue University scientists identified a gene that could help sorghum withstand the fungus that causes anthracnose disease.
RACE AND ETHNICITY OF RURAL LABOR FORCE VARY BY INDUSTRY
News Bits
Farm Futures Growers Survey - Planted Acreage of Major Crops to Increase
TSTA Weekly Update, 01/26/2023
- January 26, 2023
- NewsAdminA Editor
- Survey
Inside this Issue:
Membership renewals
2023 Annual Membership Meeting Registration & Hotel Reservations
Our Costa Rican Growouts earlier this month
Adapting growing seasons to climate change can boost yields of world’s staple crops - New research estimates impact of farmer adaptation to climate change on maize, wheat, rice, sorghum and soybean
CRISPR gene editing is in clinical trials to treat sickle cell disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS and some rare inherited diseases.
Clemson University receives FFAR grant to promote sorghum health benefits
FARM FUTURES' GROWER SURVEY: PLANTED ACREAGE OF MAJOR CROPS TO INCREASE
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