Joint agreement opens new ground for peanut research.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-8 June 2000-TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: Joint agreement opens new ground for peanut research (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07062000 LUBBOCK -- A joint development agreement between the Western Peanut Growers Association, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University and the U.S.

Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Texas and Georgia has opened new ground for agricultural research on the Texas South Plains. Representatives of these groups signed a memorandum of agreement in late January dedicating 320 acres of land near Denver City in Gaines County as a shared research farm. "We decided the joint development agreement to promote a research farm was a good idea after taking a reading of our members. They...