Texas A&M AgriLife Will Move Center from Amarillo to Canyon on Jan. 21

By Kay Ledbetter

The Texas A&M AgriLife High Plains Research and Extension Center, a new state-of-the-art facility that combines research and education outreach to the greater Texas High Plains region, will open Jan. 21 in Canyon.

This new facility, with a new name, will include all the staff, faculty and programming from the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Amarillo. The Amarillo center, located at 6500 W. Amarillo Blvd., is scheduled to close its doors to the public on Jan. 15.

The new facility is part of The Texas A&M University System’s Charles W. “Doc” Graham ’53 DVM Center complex, located at 3211 Russell Long Blvd. on the West Texas A&M University campus. This center encompasses the Texas A&M Veterinary Education, Research and Outreach, VERO, and the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory complex.

“When we open our doors on Jan. 21 at the new location, we want to serve as an embassy for citizens all across the Texas High Plains,” said Brent Auvermann, Ph.D., center director for Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Amarillo.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held April 7 at 10:30 a.m.

AgriLife Research and AgriLife Extension serving the High Plains

The multi-use facility will provide office space to support about 60 faculty and staff for the AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agencies.

Signature research programs headquartered at the new facility include beef cattle nutrition and health, wheat breeding and genetics, irrigation water management, water-limited forage systems, plant physiology, plant pathology, entomology, soil science and sustainable livestock systems engineering.