Wednesday, October 10, 2018

GUAR do you want to grow it.


Some of you may recall going to Brownfield TX to look at Guar as a potential crop in Pecos Valley back in 2003 or so. Well NMSU has a graduate student looking at this as his project and they decided to look at and asked if you would complete a survey on guar.  Guar was grown by Herb Bindle family during WWII as part of the war effort so it will grow here.   Guar gum is used in a long list of products but more recently it has a use in fracking and oil and gas industry. 

The Guar or cluster bean, with the botanical name Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, is an annual legume and the source of guar gum. It is also known as Gavar, Guwar, or Guvar bean. The origin of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba is unknown, since it has never been found in the wild.


I was hoping to get a door prize to be drawn from those completing the survey but I have not had any volunteer gifts yet.  
Below is  the survey if you want to print it an get it to me or you can complete it on  line at


So help this graduate student out and complete the survey.
I think it has some real potential here in the Pecos Valley.

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