Wool Testing – What to Test For, and How It Can Benefit Your Bottom Line

About Wool Testing – What to Test For, and How It Can Benefit Your Bottom Line

Dr. Jessup will discuss the wool testing lab in San Angelo, TX. In this seminar, Dr. Jessup will speak about some of the new (rapid, low cost) tests their wool lab is developing that they hope will be of interest to smaller producers.

To date, they have initiated two: 1) using the Mark-10 force gauge to measure fiber strength – both on staples and yarn and 2) NIRS (near infrared spectroscopy) for color. Discussion of how the Optical Fiber Diameter Analyzer (OFDA) and these two other assays can complement each other for a suite of rapid, low-cost tests.

Dr Jessup is also interested in hearing from small producers as to what other testing those producers would like to have access to.

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Single 90-min live online session.

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Feb
10th
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Wool Testing – What to Test For, and How It Can Benefit Your Bottom Line
Dr. Russell Jessup

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Dr. Russell Jessup

    Dr. Russell Jessup, Professor and Center Director Texas A&M Agrilife Research & Extension Center at San Angelo, managing diverse faculty research efforts across wool and mohair testing, sheep & goat production, rangeland operations, wildlife ecosystems, prescribed fire programs, and row crop agronomics. He further leads the Perennial Grass & Industrial Hemp Breeding programs within the Department of Soil & Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University. Perennial grass efforts target diverse feedstocks (forages, biomass, turfgrasses) and emerging bio-based material commodities (biofuels, biosilica, bioplastics, pyrolized amendments) in parallel with hybrids optimized for C-sequestration and resource-use-efficiency. Hemp improvement efforts include enabling technologies towards inbred lines, triploid hybrids, NIRS chemotyping, phytochemistry, and value-added bioproducts. Dr. Jessup grew up in the Texas Hill Country, served in the US Army (1993-1995), completed his PhD at Texas A&M University (2005), held a post-doctoral position in the USDA-ARS (2005-2007), worked for Mendel Biotechnology as a biofuel feedstock breeder (2007-2009), returned to Texas A& M University in 2009, and assumed the San Angelo Center role in 2025.

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