The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station (TAES) is the agricultural and life sciences research agency of the U.S. state of Texas and a part of the Texas A&M University System.

The agricultural experiment station division is headquartered at Texas A&M's flagship campus in College Station, Texas. TAES serves all 254 Texas counties and operates thirteen research centers throughout the state, located in the following cities:

• Amarillo
• Beaumont
• Chillicothe
• Corpus Christi
• Dallas
• El Paso
• Lubbock
• Overton
• San Angelo
• Stephenville
• Temple
• Uvalde
• Weslaco

TAES beef cattle specialists have produced the world’s largest set of gene-mapping resources for beef cattle and have cloned what is believed to be the first animal—a calf—specifically cloned for disease resistance.

Facts from webpage

• FY 2003 budget: $128,866,279
• Products of Texas Agricultural Experiment Station research result in a 30 to 50 percent return on investment.
• The agency generates 41 percent of the Texas A&M University System’s royalty income from commercialization of technology.
• The agency received more than $56 million in contract and grant awards for fiscal year 2002.

Source

• http://agresearch.tamu.edu/

Texas A&M University System