Since 1909, Texas A&M AgriLife Research Blackland Research and Extension Center (formerly Texas Agricultural Experiment Station) has been solving land and water solutions from its location on Texas’ Blackland prairie – this campus has been an essential partner in the prosperity and growth of Central Texas over the century by equipping farmers and stockmen with the knowledge they need to gain the most from their labors. The Center has remained on the forefront of research, meeting the needs of farmers, agribusinesses and conservationists and is renowned world-wide for the plant, soil and water computer simulation models its scientists have developed. Blackland Center researchers and the technologies they developed in Temple laboratories, have improved the lives of millions, in part by welcoming visiting scientists from around the world and sharing knowledge and encouraging mutual cooperation and peaceful uses of technology.