Our majors and minors offer students the opportunity to work with applied sciences to make a difference in our world by improving the efficiency of crop production, enhancing the quality of food and fiber crops,  and improving turfgrasses. Soil and Crop sciences offers the opportunity to combine biology, physics, chemistry and biotechnology into one discipline.

The Soil and Crop Sciences Department in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University was formed in 1958 by combining the departments of Agronomy, Horticulture, and Floriculture. In 1976, horticulture and floricultural activities were removed from the Soil and Crop Sciences Department and placed into a separate Department of Horticultural Sciences.