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Yidi Hou, B.S. '21 Environmental Science, came to WT four years ago from Tai’an, a city of 5.6 million in the Western Shangdong province of China. She recently got accepted into an Environmental Science program at Imperial College in London. Imperial turns down nearly 90 percent of worldwide graduate school applicants. Hou’s research and published work was key in her acceptance. “I was shocked,” Yidi said. “I just felt like it can’t be true.”

Her focus is on Centre of Environmental Policy that emphasizes soil, water and air pollution. Congratulations, Yidi, and well done!

Sebastian Grajaeda (L), JR. Animal Science, and Jadyn Sanchez (R), SR. Agriculture participated in the Kansas State University Feedlot Management Bootcamp in Garden City, KS in January. Kansas State University only invited WT to take part in the program.

“It speaks highly of what the feed yard industry thinks of our students.”

said Dr. David Lust, Associate Professor of Animal Science.

The camp provides opportunities for students to learn about the feedlot industry both in and out of the classroom. The students met with various industry leaders, toured multiple feedlots, and spent time in the classroom learning about nutrition, marketing, and industry culture. “Jadyn and Sebastian did a great job representing WT. The staff was pleased with them,” Dr. Lust said, "they would like to include us for future years with maybe even more students.”  

Sebastian said,"If anyone has the opportunity to go, I highly suggest they go if they have an interest in the feedlot or even just cattle. Go and make the most of it. Eat beef, pray for rain, and go buffs!”

Dr. Bridget Guerrero, Associate Professor of Agricultural Business and Economics is on a large team of researchers to evaluate the impacts of regenerative agriculture in semi-arid ecoregions in Texas and Oklahoma. This is a $10 million dollar project that was funded by USDA-AFRI (United States Department of Agriculture and Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) in Sustainable Agriculture Systems. The project will be conducted over 5-years from 2021-2026. Dr. Guerrero's involvement is to help with the economic evaluation of the project as well as help establish an undergraduate and/or graduate course focused on regenerative agriculture here at WT.

She also will be working on the economics portion of the project. Dr. Guerrero will work with the project team to examine the effects of different management practices on producer profit and develop a partial budgeting tool that producers can utilize to help make decisions about including alternative production practices in their operation. She will use the direct estimates of effects on producer profit to estimate the regional economic impacts (or spillover effects) from different flows of money through the broader community overall from alternative cropping systems identified in this proposed work.

"People talk about soil health and how important regenerative practices are in making agriculture more sustainable, but producers want to know how these practices will affect their bottom-line”, Dr. Guerrero states. Well done!

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