The Institute

The West Texas Agricultural Chemicals Institute (WTACI) is an unincorporated organization of dealers, industry representatives, agricultural producers, scientists, educators, and agribusiness members who support education and research programs promoting safe and effective use of agricultural chemicals and protection and preservation of the area's natural resources.

The institute was founded in 1953. Since that time it has organized and sponsored an annual West Texas Agricultural Chemicals Conference, as well as education seminars on timely issues, and programs and publications to communicate the latest technology to the agricultural industry of West Texas. It also awards scholarships to students majoring in agriculture programs at six area universities and to students who were reared in West Texas going to universities outside the area.